haddington] NORTH BERWICK AND BASS—PENCAITLAND 383 Church, Regent Square, London (in succes- sion to Edward Irving), 2nd April 1835 ; trans, to St Matthew's, Glasgow, 4th June 1839 ; trans, to Inverkeithing 18th Sept. 1845 ; trans, to St Luke's, Edinburgh, 10th Dec. 1853 ; trans, and adm. 10th April 1856 ; LL.D. (university unknown, U.S.A.) ; res. 7th Jan. 1873; died in Edinburgh 21st March 1881. He marr. (1) 24th July 1838, Marion (died 9th Feb. 1845), daugh. of John M'Gill, and had issue—John Peter, min. of Minto, born 14th Dec. 1839 : (2) 29th April 1856, Helen (died 22nd Nov. 1894), daugh. of William Balderston, W.S. Publications — The Ferry Hills (a poem) ; Room for John Knox (a poem ; anon.) ; The Sabbath, an Ode, with other Poems (Edinburgh, 1857 ; 2nd ed., 1867) ; Sonnets from Malta; Forethought and After- thought (a Communion Manual : Edin- burgh, 1862); The Proper Training of the Young, a sermon.—[Edwards's Modern Scottish Poets, vol. vi.] GEORGE WASHINGTON SPROTT, 1873 'DOrn 6t^ M-arcn 1829 > eldest son of John S., a native of Stoneykirk, Wigtownshire, min. at Musquodoboit, Nova Scotia ; educated at various schools in Nova Scotiaand at Univ. ofGlasgow ; B.A. (1849) ; licen. and ord. for work in the colonies by the Presb. of Dunoon 1852 ; assistant at St Matthew's and St Andrew's, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1853-5, Middle Parish, Greenock, and St Michael's, Dumfries, 1855-7 ; chap- lain, Scots Church, Kandy, Ceylon, 1857- 64; acting military chaplain, Portsmouth, 1865 ; min. of Chapel of Garioch 1866-73 ; pres. by Sir Hew Dalrymple, Bart. ; trans. and adm. 8th May 1873 ; Lecturer on Pastoral Theology 1878; D.D. (Glasgow 1880) ; died at Edinburgh, 27th Oct. 1909. He marr. 1857, Mary (died 29th Dec. 1874), daugh. of Charles John Hill, Halifax, and had issue—Agnes Jean, born 26th Sept. 1858 (marr. 1st March 1881, Arthur Kin- naird Wylie, stock-jobber, London) ; Mark John, born 20th May 1860, died same year ; Lilias Harington, born 1861, died 1866 ; Norman Charles Hill, born Nov. 1863, died 10th May 1873 ; Mabel Vivian, born 25th Aug. 1865 (marr. 1st Sept. 1893, Henry Mortimer Rusk, headmaster, Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh) ; Harold George Hill, M.A., LL.B., solicitor, Edinburgh, born 23rd April 1867; Margaret Elphin- stone, born 5th Oct. 1869 (marr. 22nd June 1898, Lt.-Col. Colin Campbell Renton, Indian Army) ; Wulfric Richard Hill, born 4th Oct. 1870, died 11th July 1895; Oswald Brodie, born 12th April 1872, died Feb. 1875; Violet Mary, born 22nd Dec. 1874 (marr. 7th Oct. 1903, Lt.-Col. Daniel Richard Adye, Indian Army). Publica- tions— Presbyterianism in the Colonies (1862) ; Worship, Rites, and Ceremonies of the Church of Scotland (1863); Knox's Liturgy, with Introduction and Notes (1868 ; 2nd ed., 1901) ; Scottish Liturgies of the Reign of James VI. (1871 ; 2nd ed., 1901) ; The Necessity of a Valid Ordina- tion to the Holy Ministry (1873); The Church Principles of the Reformation (1877) ; The Worshiji and Offices of the Church of Scotland (1882) ; Worship of the Church during the Covenanting Period (1893) ; The Doctrine of Schism in the Church of Scotland (1902) ; Memorials of the Rev. John Sprott, 1906 (private circulation) ; contributions to the volumes issued by Church Service Society, Scottish Church Society, Scottish Ecclesiological Society, and to the Dictionary of National Biography; [a Life of Dr Sprott is in preparation by Professor James Cooper, D.D.] JAMES ROBERTBURT, born Arngask, 1904 5*k ^ec ' 1858 ' educated at George Watson's College and Univ. of Edin- burgh ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh May 1888 ; assistant at Lady Glenorchy's and St Cuthbert's, Edinburgh ; ord. to Largo 19th May 1890 ; trans, and adm. (assistant and successor) 26th Jan. 1904. Publication — Sermon, An Old Church Bell (1908). PENCAITLAND. [Previous to the Reformation the church belonged to the Abbey of Dryburgh ; dis- joined from the Presb. of Dalkeith between 30th March 1583 and 11th Oct. 1587. Keith-Marischal was in the charge till 1588.]