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michael about 1672; trans, to Kirkton
17th April 1684; trans, to Second Charge
13th Aug. 1685 ; trans, and adm. 28th June
1687 ; deprived by the Privy Council 23rd
Aug. 1689, for refusing to read the Procla-
mation of the Estates, or pray for King
William and Queen Mary. He marr.
Elizabeth Kirk, who was buried in Grey-
friars, 31st Jan. 1696.—[Peterkin's Con-
stitution of the Church; MS. Ace. of Min.,
1689 ; Hist. Bel. of the Gen. Ass., 1690.]
THOMAS WILKIE, born 8th April
1645 ; nephew of Thomas W., min.
of the Tolbooth Parish ; educated
at Univ. of Edinburgh; MA. (31st July
1662) ; was a member of the meeting of
ministers in the province of Lothian and
Tweeddale (after the Toleration) 6th July
1687 ; pres. by the Town Council of Edin-
burgh 6th May 1689, and adm. soon after
;
formed a kirk-session 14th Jan. 1690
;
continued his services in the meeting-
house till 22nd Aug. 1691, when the keys
of the church were delivered to him by
order of the Privy Council ; Moderator of
Assembly 17th Feb. 1701, and a second
time 16th March 1704; died 19th March
1711. He bequeathed about four hundred
volumes to the Library then recently
founded for the use of the Divinity Hall
at Edinburgh. He marr. Rachel, daugh. of
John Sinclair, min. of Ormiston {Reg. Sec.
Sig., vi., 497), and widow of William
Hog, W.S.
—
\Edin. Guild and Reg. {Bur.),
Tombst. ; Monteith's Mort., ii. ; Edin. Chr.
Inst., xxv. ; Bower's Univ., i. ; Wodrow
MSS., lxxxii. ; Bonar's Canongate.~\
JOHN WALKER, trans, from Second
1712 Charge and adm. 30th Jan. 1712
;
retrans. to Second Charge 9th April
1712, with an admonition from the Presb.
" not to be so changeable in future."
JAMES WALKER, MA. (St Andrews,
1713 12th July 1698) ; licen. by Presb. of
St Andrews 21st Nov. 1700; ord.
to Auchtergaven 30th April 1701 ; trans,
to Forteviot 29th Jan. 1707 ; trans, to
Ferryport-on-Craig 14th June 1710 ; called
15th April 1712 ; trans, and adm. 23rd
June 1713; died 3rd March 1752, in 73rd
year. He marr. Isobel Oliphant, who died
11th Jan. 1762, and had issue—Samuel.
JAMES WATSON, formerly master of
175„ George Watson's Hospital, Edin-
burgh; licen. by Presb. of Dalkeith
5th June 1745; ord. to Newbattle 19th
Aug. 1746; called 28th Nov. 1752; trans,
and adm. 7th Aug. 1753; died at Peffer-
mill, Liberton, 5th Nov. 1673. Three of
his letters to James Pillans, the son of a
cousin, who became Rector of the High
School of Edinburgh, and Professor of
Humanity in the University, have been
preserved. They show shrewdness and
great knowledge of the world, and teach
sound lessons of morality. He marr. 14th
Dec. 1750, Anne (died at Edinburgh, 15th
Nov. 1824, aged 93), daugh. of Walter
Foggo, principal clerk in G.P.O., Edin-
burgh.
—
[Scots Mag., xv., p. 423; Morren's
Ann., ii. ; Acts of Ass., 1753 ; Steven's High
School.]
WILLIAM LOTHIAN, born 5th Nov.
1764
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son °^ George L., surgeon,
Edinburgh ; educated at Edinburgh
High School and Univ. ; licen. by Presb.
of Edinburgh' 1762; pres. by George III.
12th April {Reg. Sec. Sig., ix., 372), and
ord. 16th Aug. 1764; D.D. (Edinburgh,
15th Oct. 1779); died 17th Dec. 1783. He
marr. 1st Oct. 1776, Elizabeth (died 8th
Aug. 1815), daugh. of Edward Lothian,
jeweller in Edinburgh, and had issue
—
Edward, W.S., afterwards advocate, born
20th Sept. 1769, died 12th April 1840;
William, born 11th Nov. 1770; George,
merchant, Leith, born 30th Jan. 1772
;
Helen, born 24th July 1773 ; John, born
7th May 1775, died 5th Aug. 1779 ; Thomas,
surgeon, Edinburgh, born 13th Nov. 1776.
Publications
—
Bistort/ of the United Bro-
vinces of the Netherlands (London, 1780);
Sermon XXI. {Scotch Breacher, ii., Edin-
burgh, 1776).—[Steven's High School, Test.
Beg., Diet. Nat. Biog.]
ROBERT WALKER, born 1776, son of
1784 William W., min. of the Scots
Church, Rotterdam ; licen. by Presb.
of Edinburgh 24th April 1770; ord. to
Cramond 27th Nov. 1776 ; pres. by George