LINLITHGOW] UPHALL—WHITBURN 235 1823 ; pres. by David Stuart, Earl of Buchan ; ord. (assistant and successor) 29th April 1824 ; dcp. 19th June 1838 ; went to Australia, where he engaged in agriculture, and died 28th June 1873. 1839 GEORGE BOAG, born Glasgow, 2nd March 1799, son of William B. and Agnes Hamilton ; educated at Glas- gow Univ. ; licen. by Presb. of Chirnside ; ord. by Presb. of Northumberland to the Scottish Church at Widdrington ; pres. by Henry, Earl of Buchan, June 1839, and adm. 2nd Aug. 1839; died 3rd Feb. 1863. He man*. 4th June 1833, Eleanor Goldie, died 14th Sept. 1872, and had issue—William Goldie, min. of Delting, born 15th Oct. 1834; John George, born 11th June 1837, died 29th May 1842; Ann Leithead, born 16th July 1839, died unmarr. ; Agnes Hamilton, born 1st March 1842, died unmarr.; George, born 16th July 1844; Eleanor Goldie, born 23rd Jan. 1847 ; James, born 23rd Aug. 1849, died 1st June 1908. WILLIAM JOHNSTON, born Edin- 1863 burgh, 29thMay 1832 ; son ofWilliam J., English master and chaplain, Merchant Maidens' Institution, Edinburgh ; educated at High School and Univ., Edin- burgh ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 29th July 1858 ; assistant at Lesmahagow and Lady Yester's, Edinburgh ; pres. by David, Earl of Buchan, 5th March 1863 ; ord. 24th July 1863; chaplain to the volunteers for upwards of forty years ; received volunteer decoration from Queen Victoria ; died 8th May 1912. He marr. 23rd Jan. 1872, Eliza, only daugh. of William Arbuckle, farmer, Wyndford, West Lothian. CHARLES DUNN, born 1st May 1874, 1912 son °^ ^>e*er D- and Elspeth Strachan ; educated at Grammar School and Univs. of Aberdeen and Berlin ; M.A. (Aberdeen 1895), B.D. (Aberdeen 1898); licen. by Presb. of Alford 1900; assistant at St Mary's, Dundee, and West Parish, Aberdeen; ord. to Arbuthnot 2nd July 1903; trans, to Uphall 24th Sept. 1912. He marr. 6th June 1911, Jean, daugh. of William Munro. WHITBURN. [The church was opened 21st Oct. 1718. Parish disjoined from Livingston, and erected by the Commissioners of Teinds, 23rd June 1731.] ALEXANDER WARDROBE, son of 1732 David W., of Colt, Livingstone ; educated at Edinburgh Univ. ; licen. by Presb. of Forres 13th March 1721 ; ord. to Muckhart 7th April 1725 ; pres. by Sir James Cunninghame of Milncraig ; trans, and adm. 2nd March 1732 ; died 13th June 1759, in his 66th year. He marr. Julia (died 8th July 1785), eldest daugh. of Sam Telfer, min. of Kirkintilloch, and had issue —David ; Barbara ; Julian ; Mary ; Henry ; Quintin, all above 21 years of age in April 1759.— [Brown's Gosx>. Truth., Diary of Alexander Johnstone of Kirbland.] WILLIAM PORTEOUS, pres. by Lady 17 Mary Cunninghame Nov. 1759 ; ord. 10th June 1760; trans, to Wynd Church, Glasgow, 28th June 1770.—[Con- nell's Par. Law; New Stat. Ace, ii.] WILLIAM BARRON, eldest son of 1V71 John B., Glasgow; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 28th April 1762; ord. to Wamphray 10th Feb. 1763 ; pres. by Sir William Cunninghame of Livingston ; trans, and adm. 25th April 1771 ; adm. Professor of Logic in the Univ. of St Andrews 2nd Dec. 1778; died 28th Dec. 1803. He marr. 2nd Nov. 1782, Margaret Stark, and had issue—Thomas, born 28th Oct. 1783; Helen, born 26th Jan. 1785; John, born 27th May 1786 ; Ann, born 25th Nov. 1787, died 10th Aug. 1789; Elizabeth, born 1st May 1790; Maria Catherine, born 2nd Aug. 1793, died 16th June 1794 ; James, born 24th Jan. 1795, died 7th Sept. 1795. Publications —An Essay on the Mechanical Principles of the Plough (Edinburgh, 1774); History of the Colonization of the Free States of Antiquity (London, 1777, anon.) ; His- tory of the Political Connexion between England, and Ireland from the Reign of Henry II. to the Present Time (London,