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death by orders of Tipu Sultan in the
Third Mysore War, 1792 ; Margaret, born
18th Aug. 1754; Robert, born 8th April
1757; Abraham, born 28th May 1763.—
[Scots Mag., lv.]
ADAM DICKSON, born 1721, son of
7 Andrew D., min. of Aberlady ; edu-
cated at Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A.
(1744) ; licen. by Presb. of Haddington
2nd Sept. 1746; ord. to Duns 21st Sept.
1750 ; pres. by John Hay of Belton ; trans.
and adm. 22nd June 1769 ; killed by a fall
from his horse when returning from Inner-
wick, 25th March 1776. He was a noted
agriculturist, and some of his suggestions
thereanent were widely adopted. He marr.
3rd April 1742, Anne Haldane, and had
issue—Andrew, born 28th Jan. 1743, died
1764; Agnes, born 18th Feb. 1745 (marr.
2nd Jan. 1766, Richard Dobbie, chief mate
of the Worcester, Indiaman) ; Dorothea,
born 31st Oct. 1747, died 24th March 1775 ;
William, born 25th Sept. 1751, died 14th
March 1775. Publications
—
A Treatise on
Agriculture (Edinburgh, 1762 ; 2nd ed.,
enlarged, 1765; vol. ii., 1769; new edition,
2 vols., 1785) ; Small Farms Destructive
to the Country in its Present Situation
(Edinburgh, 1764); Essay on Manures
(1772) ; The Husbandry of the Ancients,
2 vols. (Edinburgh, 1778 ; London, 1788 ;
trans, into French by M. Paris, Paris,
1802).—[Aberlady Sess. Reg.; Scots Mag.,
xxxviii. ; Weekly Mag., xxxii. ; Farmer's
Mag., i. ; Biography prefixed to Hicsb. of
the Ancients, i. ; Carlyle's Autob., Somer-
ville's Life, Diet. Nat. Biog.]
JOHN EWAN, M.A. (St Andrews 1758)
;
17?6 licen. by Presb. of St Andrews 28th
Sept. 1763 ; assistant at Blackford
1767-71, to which he was pres. in 1776, but
withdrew; pres. by John Hay of Belton,
and ord. 15th Aug. 1776; died unmarr.
12th Feb. 1804. Publication—Account of
the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace, xxi.).
JOHN LUMSDEN, born 1763, son of
isrvt J°nn k.j schoolmaster of Smailholm
educated at Univ. of Edinburgh
licen. by Presb. of Dunbar 2nd July 1794
assistant to preceding; pres. by Robert
Hay of Drumelzier, and ord. 6th Sept.
1804; died 15th April 1850. He marr.
27th Feb. 1807, Isabella Dale, who died
25th April 1859. Publication—Account of
the Parish (Neiv Stat. Ace, ii.).
WALTER SCOTT, born Balmaghie, 15th
47 April 1820,son ofWalter S.,Boatcroft,
and Stewart Edgar ; educated at
Edinburgh Univ. ; licen. by Presb. of Kirk-
cudbright 8th April 1846 ; assistant at St
Enoch's, Glasgow ; ord. (assistant and suc-
cessor) 22nd April 1847 ; died unmarr. 19th
Nov. 1864.
JAMES ROBERTSON, born Lethendy,
1865 Perthshire, 9th Feb. 1837, son of
Charles R., schoolmaster, and Mary
Ann Dawson, Culsalmond, Aberdeenshire ;
educated at St Andrews Univ. ; M.A.
(1855); licen. by Presb. of Dunkeld, July
1860 ; assistant at Kinghorn 1861 to 1865
;
ord. 20th June 1865 ; chaplain to Lord High
Commissioner (Lord Aberdeen) 1883, 1884,
1885, and again in 1907 and 1908 (Lord
Kinnaird); D.D. (St Andrews 1889); Lec-
turer on Pastoral Theology 1899-1900,
1902-4 ; chairman of Christian Unity Asso-
ciation 1908-13 ; Moderator of the General
Assembly 1909. Marr. 10th June 1885,
Elizabeth Mary, daugh. of Robert Scott
Moncrieff of Fossoway, Kinross-shire, and
Mary Hamilton, and had issue—Charles
James, born 13th May 1888, died 23rd
June 1890. Publications— Our Lord's
Teaching (Guild Library and Text-Book
Series); The Christian Minister, His Aims
and Methods (Edinburgh, 1899); Lady
Blanche Balfour, a Reminiscence (Edin-
burgh, 1897; 2nd ed., 1911); Pages of
Practical Help for Young Communicants
(Edinburgh, 1888; 3rd ed., 1911); Gradu-
ated Syllabus of Religious Instruction (3rd
ed., 1905) ; Christian Upbringing (Edin-
burgh, 1908; 2nd ed., 1909); Spiritual
Power in the Church—its Elements and
its Source, Closing Address to General
Assembly of 1909 ; Contributor to Hast-
ings' Dictionary of Christ and the Gospels.