88 ROBERTSON MEMORIAL—ST ANDREW'S [pkesb. of MacKinlay, born 19th July 1862, died 26th Sept. 1865; Agnes Mary, born 8th Oct. 1863; Jessie MacKinlay, born 20th Jan. 1865 ; Matilda Mima, born 20th April 1866 ; Augusta Charlotte ; Catherine Alice ; "William Lyon ; Arthur James ; David MacKinlay Potter. Publication — Naaman, the Syrian Soldier (Edinburgh, 1901). DAVID PAUL, born 28th Aug. 1845, seventh son of William P., D.D., min. of Banchory-Devenick ; educated at Banchory-Devenick School, Aberdeen and Edinburgh Univs. ; M.A. (Aberdeen 1864); licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen 1868 ; assist- ant at Udny 1868 ; took charge of Scots Church, Dresden, 1869 ; ord. to Morebattle 29th July 1869; trans, to Roxburgh 8th Feb. 1876 ; LL.D. (Aberdeen 1894) ; trans, and adm. 15th July 1896; examiner for Degrees in Arts at Aberdeen 1871-6; president of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh 1899-1901 ; principal clerk of the General Assembly 1912; Moderator of Assembly 1915. Marr. 27th April 1876, Katherine (died 8th Sept. 1913), fourth daugh. of Alexander John Kinloch of Park and Altries,and has issue—Alexander John Kinloch, born 28th Feb. 1877 ; Katherine Ethel, born 15th Dec. 1878 ; Alice Mary, born 22nd Nov. 1880; David Hutcheon, born 21st May 1883 ; George Morison, born 10th Nov. 1884. Publications—Numerous botanical papers in the Transactions of Botanical Society and in HistoryofBeruich- shire Naturalists' Club. ST AIDAN'S {Q.S.). [The building, constructed about 1800 as a chapel of Relief, was bought from the LT.P. Church by St Cuthbert ; s congregation in 1885. Erected into a parish quoad sacra, 14th March 1887.] JAMESTHOMSON, M.A. ; ord. mission- ary to Calcutta ; app. by the Kirk- 1887 session of St Cuthbert's ; ind. 28th April 1887 ; trans, to St Andrew's, Glasgow, 11th Jan. 1894. ANDREW BENVIE, born Abernyte, Perthshire, 14th Nov. 1845, son of 1894 -yyiiiiain Benvie, jute manufacturer, Dundee, and Isabel Robertson ; educated at Normal College, Edinburgh, and Edin- burgh Univ. ; M.A. (1869), B.D. (1872), Pitt Scholar (1872); licen. by Presb. of Perth Oct. 1872; ord. Scone 10th July 1873; trans, and adm. 22ndMay 1894 ; D.D. (Edin- burgh 1912). He marr. 27th April 1875, Elizabeth Williamson, younger daugh. of David Crighton, Ardo, Stracathro, and has issue—GeorgeWilliamRodney,NewMexico, born 1887 ; Maybel Margarita, born 1881 ; Bertha Crighton, born 1887. Publications —Higher on the Hill (London, 1900 ; 2nd ed., 1903) ; The Minister at Work (Pastoral Theol. Lectures ; Edinburgh, 1911). ST ANDREW'S. [A church and parish being required for the increasing population of theNew Town, this erection was proposedby James Hunter Blair (afterwards Lord Provost), 25th April 1780, and unanimously resolved upon by the Town Council 31stJan. 1781. Opened 12th Dec. 1784. St Andrew's was thus the first parish of theNew Town. It was built after designs by Major Fraser of the Engineers, at a cost of £7000, and was seated for about 1053. A spire rising 166 feet in height, de- signed by William Sibbald, was erected in 1787. The General Assembly met in St Andrew's Church for some years up till 1851, and it was the scene of the memor- able Secession of 1843.] WILLIAM GREENFIELD, M.A.; trans. 17 . from Wemyss ; called 30th April 1784; adm. 25th Nov. 1784; trans, to the High Kirk 1st April 1787. WILLIAM MOODIE, born 2nd July 1787 1 " 59, SOn °^ -Pl0°er ^-' mm - °f Gartly ; educated at L T nivs. of St Andrews and Edinburgh ; licen. in 1781 ; tutor in the family of James Oswald of Dunnikier ; ord. to Kirkcaldy 9th June 1784 ; pres. by the Town Council 1st Aug., trans, and adm. 25th Oct. 1787 ; app. Professor of Hebrew in the University of Edinburgh, which he held in conjunction, 11th Sept. 1793; D.D. (Edinburgh, 6th Feb. 1798) ; Moderator of the General As- sembly 23rd May 1799; died 11th June