72 OLD KIRK [PRESB. OF of Woolmet ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 25th Feb. 1702 ; ord. to Innerwick 15th April 1703; called 23rd May, and adm. 27th Sept. 1713 ; died from fracture of the skull caused by a fall on a stair two days before, 8th Aug. 1756. He marr. June 1707, Mary (died 10th Jan. 1757), daugh. of David Pitcairn of Dreghorn, Colinton, and had issue—David ; William ; Mary (marr. her cousin, Principal Robert- son) ; Patrick, min. of Hutton and Cor- rie ; Janet, died 23rd April 1775. Publi- cation— The Perpetuity of the Christian Religion, a sermon (Edinburgh, 1737). — [Innerivick Sess. and Edin. Beg. (Bur.) ; Murray's Biog. Ann.] 1758 DANIEL MACQUEEN, son of Daniel M., merchant, Edinburgh, and Helen Greig ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 29th June 1735 ; ord. to Dalziel 29th Oct. 1736; trans, to Stirling 31st Dec. 1740; called 13th Aug. 1756 ; trans, and adm. 15th June 1758; D.D. (Edinburgh, 12th April 1759); died 22nd Oct. 1777. He marr. (1) 26th Dec. 1738, Elizabeth Nisbet, who died 9th May 1748, and had issue — Emilia, born 24th Oct. 1739; Daniel, min. of Prestonkirk ; Ann, born 24th Jan. 1747 ; Elizabeth (marr. John Moir of Hillfoot, W.S.), died 2nd June 1783; Helen, died 9th May 1748 : (2) 10th Sept. 1762, War- burton (died 7th Sept. 1766), daugh. of Ronald Dunbar, W.S., and had issue — Ronald, born 8th April 1764, died 22nd July 1765 ; a daugh. (marr. James Wilkie of Gilchriston). Publications— Observa- tions on Daniel's Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks (Edinburgh, 1748, anon.) ; Betters on Mr Hume's History of Great Britain (Edinburgh, 1756, anon.); A Sermon on Coloss. i. 23 (Edinburgh, 1759).—[Mon- creiffs Bife of Erskine ; Soc. Serm., 1780.] JAMES MACKNIGHT, born 17th Sept. 1778 1721, son of William M., min. of Irvine; educated at Irvine, Univs. of Glasgow and Leyden ; licen. by Presb. of Irvine ; preacher at Gorbals Chapel- of -Ease ; assistant at Kilwinning ; ord. to Maybole 10th May 1753; D.D. (Edin- burgh 1759); Moderator of Assembly 1769 ; trans, to Jedburgh 30th Nov. 1769 ; trans. to Lady Yester's, Edinburgh, 21st July 1772; trans, and adm. 26th Nov. 1778; joint-collector of the Ministers' Widows' Fund 17th Feb. 1784; died 13th Jan. 1800. One of the ablest commentators and divines whom the Church of Scotland has produced. He marr. 30th April 1754, Elizabeth (died 10th March 1813), eldest daugh. of Samuel M'Cormick, General Examiner of Excise, and had issue— Samuel, W.S., born 2nd Feb. 1757, died 24th Aug. 1807 ; James,born 8th Oct. 1759, died 17th Nov. 1793; Thomas, D.D., min. of Second Charge 1810. Publications — A Harmony of the Four Gospels, with a para- pihrase and notes (London, 1756 ; 2nd ed., 2 vols., London, 1763); The Truth of the Gospel History (London, 1763); A Neio Literal Translation from the Original Greek of all the Apostolic Epistles, with a Life of the Apostle Paul (4 vols., Edinburgh, 1795 ; 2nd ed., 7 vols.).—[Scots Mag., Ixix. ; Memoir prefixed to Epistles, Diet. Nat. Biog.] 1800 ANDREW BROWN, born Sillerknowes, Biggar, 22nd Aug. 1763, son of Richard B., weaver, and Isabella Forrest ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of Biggar 1786 ; ord. min. of the Presbyterian Church, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1787; D.D. (Edinburgh 1788); min. of Lochmaben 1795-9; of New Grey- friars, Edinburgh, 1799-1800 ; elected by the Town Council 19th Feb., trans, and aclm. 24th July 1800 ; Professor of Rhetoric and Belles-lettres in the Univ. of Edin- burgh, 14th Nov. 1801, which he held in conjunction ; Moderator of Assembly 20th May 1813 ; died 19th Feb. 1834. He marr. (1) 10th Sept. 1792, Daniel, daugh. ofGeorge Cranstoun of Harvieston, and had issue — George Cranstoun, W.S. apprentice 1810, born 18th July 1794; Daniel Isabella Elizabeth, born 2nd Nov. 1795, died 9th Aug. 1809 : (2) 7th March 1805, Mary (died 27th Jan. 1826), eldest daugh. of Dr Gregory Grant, Edinburgh : (3) 10th March 1830, Mary Ogilvie (died 18th April 1852), widow of Andrew Pearson, M.D., of Primrose Bank. Publications—Two single Sermons (Edinburgh, 1801, 1810); Notice