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mar School of Berwick-on-Tweed, and in
1824 entered the Univ. of St Andrews.
When he finished his studies in 1832,
Principal Haldane said : " This Univer-
sity has not for many years sent forth a
more distinguished student. He has gained
during a succession of years the highest
honours which the University can award "
;
licen. by Presb. of St Andrews 10th May
1832 ; ord. to Inverbrothock Chapel-of-Ease
10th April 1833 ; pres. to Campsie, and adm.
5th May 1836 ; trans, and adm. 9th Nov.
1843; D.D. (St Andrews 1844); Dean of
the Chapel Royal, and one of H.M. Chap-
lains-in-Ordinary 1846; Professor of Bibli-
cal Criticism in Edinburgh Univ. 20th
Jan. 1847. In"1857ilhe began his reform
of the Presbyterian Church service. He
restored the reading of prayers, and intro-
duced the custom of kneeling at prayer and
standing during praise. In 1863 a har-
monium was placed in his church, and in
1865an organ. These innovations provoked
keen opposition in the Church Courts, and
the Greyfriars' case was still pending before
the General Assembly when on 22nd May
1867 he fell from his horse in Princes Street,
struck with paralysis. He died at Torquay,
14th March 1868. He marr. 21st June 1836,
Isabella CarrickBuchanan,whowas granted
a Civil List pension of £100 a year on 17th
Nov. 1868 ; she died 4th Sept. 1889, and bad
issue—Margaret, born 29th July 1837 (marr.
Lockhart Thomson, S.S.C.), died 26th March
1862; George, born 17th March 1839, died
13th Sept. 1862 ; Bella, born 7th Dec. 1840,
died 11th Nov. 1863; Jane Anne, born
5th April 1843, died 19th Aug. 1858;
Catherine Napier, born 13th July 1845.
Publications— Lectures on the Causes of
Departure from the Parochial Economy
and the Evils of that Departure, especially
in Large Toivns (1835); The Theses of
Erastus Touching Excommunication, trans-
lated, with a preface (1844); A Handbook
of Devotion (1845) ; The Holy Bible, with
the Marginal References revised ami im-
proved (1854; another edition, 1855);
Prayersfor Public Worship, with Extracts
from the Psalter and other parts of Scrip-
I ture (1857; 2nd edition, 1858; 3rd edition,
i
1863; 4th edition, 1864); The Order of
Public Worship and Administration of the
Sacraments as used in the Church of the
Greyfriars, Edinburgh (5th edition, 1873)
;
Prayers for Family Worship (1861 ; 3rd
edition, 1884); The Family and its Duties,
with Other Essays and Discourses for
Sunday Beading (1863); The Reform of
the Church in Worship, Government, and
Doctrine (1864) ; The Clerical Profession,
some of its Difficulties anil Hindrances
(1866) ; A Letter to the Members of the
General Assembly respecting In/novations im-
puted to the Writer (1867) ; Sermons (1814) ;
numerous newspaper articles, addresses,
discourses, and single sermons.
—
[Life ami
Remains (2 vols., 1870), by Robert Herbert
Story ; St Giles' Lecture (XI.), by Principal
John Cunningham ; Diet. Nat. Biog.]
ROBERT WALLACE, born 24th June
1869 1831 > son °f Jasper W., gardener,
Kincaple, Fife, and Elizabeth Archi-
bald ; educated at the parish school of
Culross, and Univ. of St Andrews; M.A.
(1853); Classical Master of CuparAcademy
1854 ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh July
1857; ord. to Newton-on-Ayr 23rd Dec.
1857; trans, to Trinity Parish, Edinburgh,
21st Dec. 1860 ; trans, and adm. 26th Dec.
1868; D.D. (Glasgow 1869); app. to the
Chair of Church History in Edinburgh
Univ. 1872 ; res. his professorship as well
George Lee, was precentor in the Scots Church, Tweed-
mouth, and later treasurer, elder, and session clerk.
George early entered on business as a buatbuilder on his
own account, and became a fairly prosperous man,
employing from eight to ten men in addition to appren-
tices. Robert, his son, was educated under a good
classical teacher, Guy Gardiner, and served an appren-
ticeship of six years with his father as a boatbuilder.
When he was nine years old the father was able to
buy a substantial house, still occupied by a relative.
The story of his having to sell a buat for his
college fees is unlikely, as his father was a prosperous
man. In his vacations Robert Lee used to bring fellow-
students down with him and take them out in a
boat, probably built by himself. He was the eldest
son. Anthony Pye, his brother, entered the Church of
England, but died at the early age of twenty-live, in 1842.
Another, William, who was an engineer, entered the
Mint at St Petersburg, but fell under suspicion during
the Crimean War, was banished to Siberia, and never
more heard of.