12 CRAMOND [PRESB. OF
1737
GILBERT HAMILTON,bom 16th May
1715, son of William H. above
mentioned ; educated at Univ. of
Edin. ; licen. by Presb. of Dalkeith
7th Sept. 1736; pres. by John, Earl of
Ruglen, 21st Sept. 1736; ord. 28th March
1737 ; D.D. (King's College, Aberdeen,
1760); Moderator of Assembly 19th May
1768; died 17th May 1772. He marr. (1)
9th Jan. 1742, Isabel, daugh. of James
Smith of Nether Alderston : (2) 4th March
1754, Margaret, daugh. of John Craigie of
Dunbarnie, and had issue—Anne Cock-
burn, born 27th June 1756 ; Mary, born
24th Feb. 1758 (marr. William Dinwiddie,
Manchester) ; Susan, born 6th Jan. 1761
(marr. 14th Sept. 1786, Patrick Anderson,
W.S.), died 18th July 1821. Publication
—The Disorders of a Church, and their
Remedies, a sermon (Edinburgh, 1752).
—
[Wood's Cramond.]
CHARLES STUAET, born 1745, son
1773 of James S. of Dunearn, Lord
Provost of Edinburgh, a descendant
of James, fourth Earl of Moray, and
Elizabeth Drummond ; licen. by Presby-
terian ministers in and about London,
25th Aug. 1772, and enrolled as a preacher
by Presb. of Edinburgh 30th Sept. follow-
ing ; pres. by Willielma, Lady Glenorchy,
and ord. 27th April 1773. Entertaining
scruples about Church Establishments, he
resigned 17th May 1776 and formed an
Anabaptist congregation in Edinburgh,
which was ultimately dissolved. Having
studied medicine, he took the degree of
M.D., 12th Sept. 1781, and practised as a
physician ; died 28th May 1826. He suc-
ceeded to Dunearn, and marr. (1) 29th Oct.
1773, Mary (died 12th April 1817), daugh.
of John Erskine, D.D., Edinburgh, and had
issue—Christian, born 24th Aug. 1774, died
unmarr. 5th June 1808 ; James of Dunearn,
W.S., born 24th Nov. 1775, engaged in a
fatal duel with Sir Alex. Boswell of Auch-
inleck in 1822 (see Bid. Nat. Biog.), died
3rd Nov. 1849 ; Elizabeth Ann, born 29th
Aug. 1777, died 6th April 1836 ; Mary, born
14th July 1786, died 1st March 1872 (marr.
June 1814, John Burnett of Kemnay);
John Alexander of Carnock, born 4th Nov.
1787, died 3rd Nov. 1809; Alison, born
6th Dec. 1791 (marr. 1816, Capt. J. W.
Carmichael), died 1885 : (2) 18th Jan. 1819,
Margaret (died 10th Nov. 1821), youngest
daugh. of Alex. Parlane, surgeon, Glasgow.
Publications
—
The Present State of Hitman
Nature according to the Word of God (Edin-
burgh, 1773) ; Probation Sermonpreached in
Edinburgh (1777), from John xviii. 36 ; The
Distinction between the Kingdom of Christ
and the Kingdoms of this World, and
applied to confirm the Loyalty and assert
the Liberty of Christians, a sermon (Edin-
burgh, 1777); see Essays in Speculative
Society's Proceedings on "The Motives of
Human Actions"; Bissertatio Medica in-
auguralis Be systematis nervosi officiis
(Edinburgh, 1781); edited the Edin-
burgh Quarterly Magazine, 1798-1800.
—
[Douglas's Peer., ii. ; Wood's Hist, of
Cramond, Haldane's Mem., Kay's Portr.]
ROBERT WALKER, pres. by Willielma,
17^_ Lady Glenorchy, and ord. 27th Nov.
1776; trans, to the Canongate 19th
Aug. 1784.—[Wood's Cramond.]
ARCHIBALD BONAR, born 23rd Feb.
1753, fifth son of John B., min. of
Cockpen and Perth ; originally in-
tended for the legal profession ; educated at
High School and Edinburgh LTniv. ; tutor
in the family of David, Earl of Leven
;
licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 29th Oct.
1777; ord. to Newburn 31st March 1779;
trans. toNorth-West Church, Glasgow, 17th
July 1783; pres. by Willielma, Lady Glen-
orchy ; trans, and adm. 19th April 1785
;
died 8th April 1816. He marr. (1) 15th
Aug. 1782, Bridget (died 4th Jan. 1787),
daugh. of David Black, min. of Perth
:
(2) 16th Aug. 1792, Anne (died 8th May
1861, in her 94th year), daugh. of Andrew
Bonar of Litchfield, and had issue—John,
born 10th Nov. 1793, died 4th Oct. 1800
;
Elizabeth, born 31st May 1797 (marr. 13th
March 1827, John Purves, min. of Lady
Glenorchy's, Edinburgh, afterwards of Jed-
burgh), died 6th June 1865 ; Archibald,
banker in Edinburgh, born 25th June 1799,
died 29th Feb. 1872 ; John, min. of Lar-
bert and Dunipace, afterwards of the Free
Church, Aberdeen and Glasgow, and secre-
1785