PEEBLES] PEEBLES—STOBO 289 Earl of Wemyss and March, 1847 ; called 8th July, and adm. 19th Aug. 1847 ; clerk of the Presb. ; D.D. (Glasgow 1866) ; died 27th Jan. 1870. He marr. 20th April 1837, Jane (died at Innerleithen, 3rd June 1878), daugh. of Andrew Macgeorge, solicitor, Glasgow, and had issue—Alex- ander, born 22nd Feb. 1838 ; Andrew Mac- george, born 21st Aug. 1840 ; George, born 26th Dec. 1842 ; Elizabeth Jackson, born 14th Feb. 1845 ; Jane, born 24th June 1847, died 3rd Nov. 1852; Margaret Mac- george, born 30th July 1849 (marr. Hugh Baird, Glasgow) ; Robert Macgeorge, born 8th March 1851, died 26th Sept. 1851 ; John Little, born 10th Aug. 1852 ; William Macgeorge, insurance manager, born 4th June 1857. Publications — A Catechism on Pauperism and the Poorhouse in Scotland (Edinburgh, 1845) ; Account of the Parish of Tidliallan {Nev) Stat. Ace). 1870 JOHN BELL LORRAINE, born Tin- wald, 30th April 1844, son of Joseph Currie L., min. of Tinwald, afterwards of Caerlaverock ; educated at Hutton Hall Academy, and St Andrews and Edinburgh Univs. ; M.A. (St Andrews), B.D. (Edin.) ; licen. by Presb. of Dumfries 1867 ; assistant at Dalkeith and Peebles ; pres. by the Earl of Wemyss and March 24th March 1870 ; called 22nd April, ord. 2nd June 1870 ; died 14th May 1893. He marr. 11th Oct. 1876, Sybella Richardson (died 25th Jan. 1894), daugh. of Wm. Blackwood, solicitor, Peebles, and had issue—Joseph Edward Richardson, born 4th Nov. 1877 ; William Blackwood, born 18th Oct. 1879; Sybella Blackwood, born 23rd Oct. 1881 ; Mary Bell, born 27th Aug. 1884, died at New York 4th Jan. 1912. MATTHEW GARDNER, trans, from Mid-Calder ; adm. 20th Sept. 1893 ; 1QQO * * 3 trans, to Hyndland, Glasgow, 1906. ALEXANDER MILLER MACLEAN, M.A., B.D. ; trans, from Cramond ; adm. 9th May 1907; trans, to Paisley Abbey (First Charge) 23rd Sept. 1910. VOL. I. 1907 THOMAS MARTIN, born Morningside, 1911 Scone, 15th April 1856, son of Hugh M. and Ann Mitchell ; educated at St Martin's Parish School and Univs. of Edinburgh and St Andrews ; M.A. (Edin- burgh 1880), B.D. (St Andrews 1883) ; licen. by Presb. of Perth June 1883 ; ord. to St Stephen's, Perth, 19th Sept. 1883; trans, to Forgan 20th Dec. 1884 ; trans, to Cramond 17th May 1890; trans, to St Mary's, Edin- burgh,May 1896 ; trans, to Barony, Glasgow, 25th Oct. 1900 ; trans, and adm. 6th Jan. 1911 ; D.D. (St Andrews, 30th March 1905) ; convener of the Home Mission Committee 1910. Marr. 24th Dec. 1885, Christian Isabel, daugh. of Francis Robertson and Hannah Smith,andhas issue—Hugh Forgan, M.A., Snell Exhibitioner, Oxford, born 25th Oct. 1886; Frances Margaret, M.A., born 14th Dec. 1888 (marr. John M. Hunter, min. of Abbotsball) ; Thomas, student of medicine, born 26th March 1891 ; Christian Isabel, born 23rd March 1895. Publication —Contribution to Kon-Churchgoing (Edin- burgh, 1911). Second Charge. [Created in 1586 and abolished apparently in 1603.] ADAM DICKSON, reader at Eddleston 1574, and at Peebles 1576-86. He attended the Synod 12th Oct. 1586 ; trans, to Newlands 1589.—[Peg. Assig., Wodroiv Miscell., Calderwood's Hist.] GAVIN MAKCALL, M.A.; adm. 15th 1600 ^C*' 1(>00; trans, to Traquair 4th Aug. 1603. STOBO. [The church of Stobo is of great antiquity, and was the plebania or mother- church of nearly all the parish churches of Peeblesshire. It was dedicated to St Mungo, and previous to the Reformation was a prebend of Glasgow. Restored in 1863 at the expense of Sir G. Graham Montgomery of Stanhope, Bart.] JOHN COLQUHOUN, reader 1560 in 1560. 1586