EDINBURGH] SOUTH LEITH—ST MUNGCTS 169
Edin. Clergy ; Acts of Ass., 1802; Steven's
High School ; Kay's Portr., ii.]
1804
JAMES ROBERTSON, Keen, by Presb.
of Glasgow 2nd May 1781 ; ord.
assistant at St Ninians 13th Aug.
1783 ; adm. to Gargunnock 12th July 1787 ;
pres. by the Magistrates, etc., and trans.
and adm. 13th Dec. 1804; D.D. (Edin-
burgh, 9th Dec. 1805); died at Balloan,
Perthshire, 25th Aug. 1832, in 75th year.
He marr. (1) 24th Sept. 1787, Ann Walker,
who died 18th Oct. 1806, and had issue
—
Campbell, born 11th Sept. 1788, died 7th
Jan. 1807 ; John Thomas, merchant, Leith,
born 20th April 1793, died 17th April
1865 : (2) 25th Feb. 1808, Alison (died 10th
June 1858), daugh. of William Jamieson,
Portobello, and had issue—Christian, died
3rd Dec. 1809. Publications—The Duty of
Contending Earnestly for the Faith once
delivered to the Saints, a sermon (Edin-
burgh, 1811) ; Account of Gargunnock (Sin-
clair's Stat. Ace, xviii.).
—
[Tombst., Kay's
Portr.']
DAVID THORBURN, born 31st Aug.
1805, son of William T., merchant,
Leith, and Marion Marshall ; edu-
cated at Leith High School, Edinburgh
High School, and Univ. ; licen. by Presb.
of Edinburgh 27th July 1831 ; assistant to
preceding ; pres, Nov. 1832 ; ord. 14th
March 1833 ; M.A. (Edinburgh, 30th March
1833). Joined the Free Church ; min. of
South Leith Free Church 1843 ; D.D. (Edin-
burgh 1885); died 22nd Aug. 1893. He
marr. 12th Dec. 1843, Jane (born 25th
June 1809, died 10th June 1874), daugh. of
John Hay and Jane Pasley, and had issue
—
William David, advocate, born 20th Feb.
1846, died 19th Feb. 1888; John Hay,
born 9th Jan. 1848, general secretary,
Free Church of Scotland, 1900-8 ; Jane
Pasley Hay, born 2nd April 1850 (marr.
J. J. Graham Brown, M.D.), died 1891.
Publications
—
The Divine Origin and Per-
petual and Universal Obligation of Tithes
(Edinburgh, 1841) ; The Constitution of the
Deacon's Court (Edinburgh, 1847); The
Divinely-Prescribed Method for the Sup-
port of the Clergy (Edinburgh, 1847) ; The
Sustentation Fund of the Free Church
1833
(Edinburgh, 1852) ; Histo7'ical Review of
the Legislation of the Free Church on the
Sustentation Fund (Edinburgh, 1855) ; Sup-
plemental Review on the Same (Edinburgh,
1855) ; Memorandum Relative to the Ter-
centenary of the Reformation in Scotland
(Edinburgh, 1860) ; How to get rid of
Parliamentary Grants to Rome (Edin-
burgh, 1860) ; Suggestions Relative to the
Formation of a National Association for
Scotland (Edinburgh, 1863); The Endow-
ment of the Universities of Scotland an
Object of National Importance (1864).
— [Macfarlan's Leith Clergy, Campbell
Irons's Leith and its Antiquities, Family
Papers^]
1844
HENRY DUFF, born Leslie, Fife,
5th July 1807, son of Peter D.,
Walkerston Flax Mill, and Anne
Russell ; educated at Leslie and Dunferm-
line, Univs. of St Andrews and Edinburgh ;
English master (1833), and latterly head-
master of the Trades' House School,
Glasgow ; one of the originators of Queen's
College, Glasgow; ord. 15th Feb. 1844;
clerk to Presb. of Edinburgh 1845 ; died
12th June 1872, when the Second Charge
ended. He marr. 11th July 1843, Margaret
(died 19th Aug. 1894), daugh. of Robert
Dunlop Mather, merchant, Glasgow, and
had issue—Mary Anne, born 17th April
1844 (marr. 11th Aug. 1864, Alexander
Latta, solicitor); Henry John, born 1st
April 1847 (deceased) ; Robert James, born
11th Nov. 1851; Alexander, born 2nd
June 1854. Publications— Editor of The
Literary Museum and Critical Review
(Glasgow, 1832); editor of The Scottish
Pidpit (1832); various papers to The
Republic of Letters (Glasgow), and The
Covenanter (Belfast).
ST MUNGCTS
{Chapel-of-Eas e).
GEORGE JACK, born Monquhitter,
1901 Aberdeenshire, 9th Feb. 1865, son
of Alexander J. and Helen Legge
;
educated at Old Grammar School and