106 ST GEORGE'S [PRESB. OF three articles in the Edinburgh Encyclo- paedia, of which he was part proprietor. — [Edin. Chr. Inst., xxxi., New Series, i. ; Chalmers', M'Culloch's, and Brown's Fun, Serms.; Anderson's Sketches; Cunningham's Jlist., ii. ; Chambers's Biog. Diet., iv. ; Kay's Portr., ii. ; Cockburn's Mem., Wilson's Pr. Perth, Diet. Nat. Biog.] JAMES MAETIN, born 30th July 1831 180°> son °f Jolm M. of Swan Inn, Brechin ; M.A. (Aberdeen, 2nd April 1*16); attended divinity classes at Edin- burgh ; tutor in the family of Ogilvie of Tannadice ; licen. by Presb. of Forfar 15th Aug. 1821 ; ord. to Glenisla 18th Sept. 1823; adm. to Stockbridge Chapel 14th May 1828 ; pres. by the Town Council (at the request of the kirk-session), trans, and adm. 6th Oct. 1831 ; died unmarr. at Leg- horn, where he had gone for the recovery of his health, 22nd May 1834. Publication —Discourses, with Letters on Prayer, and a Memoir by Robert Paul (Edinburgh, 1835).— [Discourses, Bruce's Fun. Serm., Anderson's Sketches; Maclagan's Hist, of St George's Church.] ROBERT SMITH CANDLISH, born 1834 23r(* ^arcn 1806> son °f James C, M.A., teacher of Medicine, Edin- burgh, one of Burns's intimates, and Jane Smith, one of his " six Mauchline belles " ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; tutor in the family of Sir Hugh Hume Campbell of Marchmont, Bart. ; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow, 6th Aug. 1828 ; assistant at St Andrews, Glasgow, and Bonhill ; offered himself for service in Canada ; employed as assistant min. in absence of preceding, and on his death presented by the Town Council, 20th May 1834, and ordained 14th Aug. 1834. He was appointed to the new parish of Greenside in 1836, but declined acceptance ; also in 1841 offered the newly instituted Professorship of Divinity and Biblical Criticism in Edinburgh University, and a deanery of the Chapel Royal, both of which appointments, owing to the part he took in the Non-Intrusion Controversy, were cancelled ; D.D. (Princeton College, New Jersey, 1841). Joined the Free Church ; min. of Free St George's, which he opened, 28th May 1843; appointed Professor of Divinity in the New College, 1847, but relinquished it, and remained in his charge ; Moderator of the Free General Assembly 22nd May 1862, and Principal of the New College 1862; D.D. (Edinburgh, 24th April 1865). After the death of Dr Chalmers he was the most influential of the leaders of the Free Church; died 19th Oct. 1873. He marr. 6th Jan. 1835, Jessie (died 16th Sept. 1894), daugh. of Walter Brock and Janet Crawford, and had issue—James Smith Candlish, D.D., min. at Logie-Almond and Aberdeen, Professor in Free Church College, Glasgow, 1872-97, born 14th Dec. 1835, died 7th March 1897 ; Jessie, born 14th Jan. 1837, died 29th Jan. 1893 (marr. 1865, William Anderson of Glentarkie); Jane Smith, born 14th June 1838, died 30th March 1840 ; Walter, born 10th Aug. 1839, died 20th Feb. 1840; Elizabeth Smith, born 28th Dec. 1840 (marr. 1863, Archibald Henderson, D.D., United Free Church min. at Crieff); Agnes, born 3rd Aug. 1842, died 24th April 1845 ; Robert Smith, marine engineer, born 21st April 1844, died 20th May 1887; Margaret Charlotte, born 28th Jan. 1846, died 16th April 1899 ; John Bogle, insurance agent, Australia, born 2nd Nov. 1847 ; Mary Ross, born 9th June 1851, died 30th Sept. 1866. Publications—Eleven single Sermons (Edin- burgh, 1834, et seq.) ; Contributions towards the Exposition of the Book of Genesis, 3 vols. (Edinburgh, 1842-52); The Word of God the Instrument of the Propagation of the Gospel (1843) ; Scripture Characters and Miscellanies (Edinburgh, 1850); Reason and Revelation (Edinburgh, 1854) ; Mail's Right to the Sabbath (Edinburgh, 1856) ; Life in a Risen Saviour (Edinburgh, 1858) ; The Atonement (Edinburgh, 1860) ; Two Great Commandments (Edinburgh, 1860); The Fatherhood of God (Edinburgh, 1865); Sermons, memoir (Edinburgh, 1874); Dis- courses on the E]>hesians (Edinburgh, 1875) ; numerous pamphlets, etc.— [Tombst. ; Smith's Scott. Clergy, i. ; Diet. Nat, Biog., Wilson's Memorials of Robert Smith Candlish, Maclagan's Hist, of St George's Church.']