HADDINGTON] HADDINGTON 371
Univ. of St Andrews ; MA. (1823) ; licen.
by Presb. of Fordoun 17th Sept. 1828;
assistant to his father ; ord. to Cults 1st
June 1832 ; trans, to Second Charge,
and adm. 19th Dec. 1833 ; suspended by
the General Assembly 10th May 1842,
from his judicial functions as a member
of Presb. and other superior judicatories,
till after the first Wednesday of March
1843, for holding communion with the
mins. of Strathbogie ; trans, to First
Charge, and adm. 20th June 1843; D.D.
(St Andrews 1843) ; convener of the
General Assembly's Committee on Educa-
tion 27th May 1854 ; depute-clerk of
Assembly 1859 ; principal clerk 1862
;
Moderator 24th May 1866; died 11th
Sept. 1874. He marr. 14th July 1840,
Helen (died 3rd Jan. 1860), claugh. of
Henry Davidson, sheriff-clerk of Hadding-
tonshire, and had issue— Martha Mary
Chisholm, born 9th Nov. 1841 ; Diana
Shank, born 13th March 1843 (marr.
John Forbes Watson Grant, M.A., min.
of the Second Charge, Haddington, after-
wards of St Stephen's, Edinburgh); Helen,
born Nov. 1848; Harriet Anne Scott,
born 7th Feb. 1854 ; Louisa Frances, born
8th Aug. 1856, died in infancy. Publi-
cations
—
Styles of Writs, Forms of Pro-
cedure, and Practice of the Church
Courts of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1850, and
various editions) ; Letter to ati M.P. on
the Parochial Schools of Scotland (Edin-
burgh, 1854) ; Speech upon the Parish
Schools Bill (Edinburgh 1856) ; Remarks
on the Recommendation and Draft Bill
on Education (Edinburgh, 1868) ; Speech
on the Scotch Education Bill, 1871.
—
[Acts
of Ass., 1842 ; Diet. Nat. Biog.~]
WILLIAM KOSS, born Dingwall, 30th
1874 July 1828, son of John P. ; educated
at Glasgow Univ. and at Halle,
Germany ; ord. by Presb. of Greenock as
chaplain to the Forces ; served with the
42nd Highlanders during the Crimean
War, the Indian Mutiny, and in the Ex-
pedition to Abyssinia ; adm. to Second
Charge 16th Dec. 1869 ; trans, and adm.
27th Oct. 1874; died 13th Dec. 1879.
He marr. (1) Amy (died in India), daugh.
of Colonel Tudor, R.A., and had issue
—
Gertrude, born 27th June 1863, died un-
marr. 22nd June 1894 : (2) 6th July 1870,
Emilie Aldis. daugh. of Charles Dupre
Fisher, London, and Eleanor Bailiff, and
had issue—Walter Gordon, accountant,
born 6th May 1871 ; Charles Dupre, C.A.,
born 29th July 1872; William Alston,
district commissioner, Lagos, West Africa,
born 1874 ; Ada Frances, born 1877 (marr.
19th June 1901, Sir Edwin Arney Speed,
barrister, Chief Justice of Northern
Nigeria).
ROBERT NIMMO SMITH, born Edin-
1880 kurgh, 16th Dec. 1842, son of John
Lumsden S. and Isabella Nimmo
;
educated at High School and Univ. of
Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh
10th July 1867 ; assistant at Livingston,
and St Andrew's, Edinburgh ; ord. to
Cargill 14th July 1870 ; trans, to Second
Charge, Haddington, 8th April 1875 ; trans,
to First Charge 18th May 1880; LL.D.
(Hobart College, New York, 1893); died
19th Sept. 1912. He marr. (1) 2nd April
1871, Jean Carmichael (died 26th Oct.
1881), daugh. of Andrew Haddow, and
had issue—Robert John Haddow, born
20th Jan. 1872, died 24th April 1890;
Mabel, born 4th March 1874 : (2) 9th Jan.
1883, Mary Anne, daugh. of Andrew Tod,
and had issue—Francis Clement Nimmo,
born 10th Oct. 1884 ; Austin Nimmo, born
15th Dec. 1886 ; Mary Dorothea Nimmo,
born 8th Jan. 1889 ; Hilda Nimmo, born
5th April 1891.
GEORGE HENRY DONALD, trans.
1906 fr°m Southdean, and adm. (assist-
ant and successor) 4th Oct. 1906
;
trans, to West Parish, Aberdeen, 11th
Dec. 1912.
GEORGE WAUCHOPE STEWART,
1913 k°rn Edinburgh, 5th March 1863,
son of John Crawford S. and
Charlotte Barnetson ; educated at George
\Yatson's College and Univ., Edinburgh
;
MA. (1885), B.D. (1887) ; licen. by Presb.
of Edinburgh May 1885 ; assistant at
Girvan and Pollokshields ; ord. to West
Parish, Fraserburgh, 12th Feb. 1891 ; trans,
to Rosemount, Aberdeen, 25th Sept. 1901
;