142 THE TRON—WEST ST GILES [PRESB. OF 1891 cessor) by the Town Council in 1829. A minority of the patrons challenged the right to appoint a successor, but having been found lawful, both by the Court of Session and House of Lords, he was adm. 11th Oct. 1832; D.D. (Edinburgh, 29th May 1847). He declined nomination as Moderator of Assembly. He died 21st July 1866. He man*. 25th July 1817, Caroline Felicite Hepburn (died 21st July 1866, aged 77), second daugh. of Archibald Mitchelson of Middleton. Publications—Two single Ser- mons (Edinburgh, 1837-48); Preface to Newton's Letters.—[Kay's Portr., i. ; Neiv Scots Mag., ii. ; Acts of Ass., 1830.] TYNECASTLE (Q.S.). [Church built in 1901 ; disjoined from St Cuthbert's and erected into a parish quoad sacra by decree of the Court of Teinds, 5th July 1912.] JAMES BELL NICOLL, born Forfar, 24th Feb. 1849, son of John N., of Bel- field, and Elizabeth Bell ; educated at Forfar Academy, Univs. of St Andrews and Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb. of Forfar April 1884 ; assistant at Largo ; ord. 17th May 1891. Marr. 4th Aug. 1891, Jessie, daugh. of James Thomson and Jane Mackenzie, and has issue—James ; Jean ; Elsie; Maria. WEST COATES (Q.S.). [Disjoined from St Cuthbert's and erected into a parish qicoad sacra, 5th June 1871. A church was built in 1868-9, and opened in Jan. 1870.] ROBERT GIBB FORREST, born Mill 1872 °^ Sandhaven, Pitsligo, 11th July 1838, son of George F. ; educated at Parish School, Fraserburgh, and Grammar School, Univ., and King's College, Aber- deen; M.A. (1858); licen. by Presb. of Deer 1863; assistant at Lonmay, 1863-5; ord. 27th April 1865 to New Pitsligo; trans, to Macduff 4th Sept. 1868 ; trans. and adm. 22nd Feb. 1872 ; D.D. (Aberdeen 1892); died 19th Aug. 1913. Marr. 15th Dec. 1868, Margaret (died 21st Sept. 1899), daugh. of Rev. George Stephen, school- house, Fordyce, Banffshire, and had issue— Margaret, born 4th Dec. 1869 ; Elsie, B.Sc. (Lond.), Lecturer in Mathematics, London, born 11th Aug. 1871 ; Annie, born 18th Dec. 1872, died 12th June 1892 ; George, C.A., Inverness, born 20th July 1874 ; Robert, estate office clerk, London, born 13th March 1876; Jane, born 11th May 1879 (marr. George Victor Dunnet, min. of Cockburns- path) ; Stephen, M.D., Alexandria, Egypt, born 27th July 1881. Publication— Christ the Corner Stone (Edinburgh, 1914), posthumous. WILLIAM ANDREW KNOWLES, 1909 k°rn Kinnoull, 3rd March 1868, son of William Duncan K., B.A., Con- gregational min. at Perth ; educated at PerthAcademy and Edinburgh Univ. ; M.A. (1889) ; B.D. (1893) ; licen.by Presb. of Edin- burgh 10th May 1893 ; assistant at Barony, Glasgow, 1893-7 ; ord. to Kerse 2nd Sept. 1897 ; trans, and adm. (assistant and suc- cessor) 1st Oct. 1909. ST BRIDES (Chapel-of-Ease). [Begun in 1880 as a mission within the Dairy district of West Coates Parish. A church was built in 1901, at a cost of £6500. James Gillan, B.D. (afterwards of St Margaret's, Edinburgh), took charge from 1898 to 1904.] WILLIAM GEORGEANDREWS, born lgo4 Lishawara, 11th July 1868, son of Joseph A. and Margaret Wilson ; educated at Banbridge Academy and Royal Univ. of Dublin; B.A. (1893); licen. by Presb. of Banbridge May 1895; assistant at Rutland Square Church, Dublin ; adm. to the Church of Scotland 1903; acting chaplain at Aldershot ; assistant at St Mary's, Dundee; ord. 4th May 1904. WEST ST GILES, ok NEW NORTH CHURCH. [There was a meeting-house in the Lawnmarket in 1692, to which a parish was allocated 25th March 1698, termed the New North, for whose accommodation