144 WEST ST GILES [PRESB. OF Unconverted Sinners, a sermon (Edinburgh, 1733) ; Sermon after the Death of the Rev. James Craig, 1731 ; edited Craig's Sermons, 2 vols. (Edinburgh, 1732).—{Presb. and Test. Beg. ; Wodrow's Anal., iii., iv. ; Wood's Hist, of Cramond; Grant's Univ., ii. ; Brown's Gospel Truth.] 1738 ROBERT WALLACE, born 7th Jan. 1696, only son of Matthew W., min. of Kincardine-in-Menteith ; edu- cated at theGrammar School of Stirlingand Univ. ofEdinburgh,where heacted as assist- ant to James Gregory, Professor of Mathe- matics. He was one of the founders of the Rankenian Club in 1717 ; licen. by Presb. of Dunblane 31st July 1722 ; became min. of Moffat 29th Aug. 1723, and on 22nd Nov. 1733 was trans, to New Greyfriars, and to this charge 24th Sept. 1738. The Town Council obtained an interdict from the Lord Ordinary against the settlement, but as the city was considered only one parish, and the appointment to the different churches was fixed by the Presb., and the " matter was purely spiritual," he had no hesitation in accepting, and the opposi- tion proceeded no farther. Wallace was Moderator of the General Assembly 12th May 1743 ; he was app. by the Commis- sion 9th Nov. 1743 along with George Wishart to approach Parliament in con- nection with the Act providing for the widows and children of ministers and pro- fessors. They were successful, and received the thanks of the succeeding Assembly. He was a Dean of the Chapel Royal and Chaplain in Ordinary to George II. June 1744; D.D. (Edinburgh, 13th March 1759); died 29th July 1771. On the overthrow of the Walpole administration in 1742, he was entrusted for four years with the management of Church business, and consulted in the distribution of Crown Patronage, and so well did he discharge this duty that no instance occurred in which there was not a harmonious settle- ment. To his knowledge as a man of the world, were joined an acquaintance and zeal in mathematics which rendered him of essential service in assisting to make the calculations on which were founded the annuities and provisions to the widows and children under the Act above noticed. He marr. 14th Oct. 1726, Helen (died 9th Feb. 1776), daugh. of George Turnbull, min. of Tynninghame, and had issue— Matthew, D.D., vicar of Tenterden, Kent ; George, advocate, author of various legal and other works, born 1727, died 13th March 1805 ; Eliza- beth—all of whom died unmarr. Pub- lications— The Regard due to Divine Revelation, and its Pretences to it Con- sidered, a sermon (London, 1731); Reply to a Letter Directed to the Minister of Moffat [by William Dudgeon] Concerning the Positive Institutions of Christian- ity (London, 1732) ; The Letter to the Learned Author of the Queries Unmasked (Edinburgh, 1737, anon.) ; Ignorance and Superstition, a Source of Violence, and Cruelty, and in Particular the Cause of the Present Rebellion, a sermon (Edinburgh, 1746); A Sermon on James Hi., 18 (Edin- burgh, 1746); A Dissertation on the Numbers of Mankind in Ancient and Modern Times (Edinburgh, 1753, anon. ; new ed., Edinburgh, 1809), with Life of the Author (the book was translated into French under the supervision of Montes- quieu) ; The Doctrine of Passive Obedience and Non-resistance Considered (Edinburgh, 1754) ; Characteristics of the Present Politi- cal State of Great Britain (Edinburgh, 1758) ; Various Prospects of Mankind, Nature, and Providence (London, 1761). He left in MS. an Essay on Taste, which was prepared for the press by his son, but never published ; and many other unpublished MSS. now in the library of Edinburgh University.—[Wodrow's - Anal., iii., iv., and Corresp., iii. ; Scots Mag., xxxiii., lxxi. ; Carlyle's Autob., Mackenzie's Life of Home ; Morren's Ann., i. ; Diet. Nat. Biog.) WILLIAM GLOAG, son of Andrew G., 1W2 min. of West Calder ; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ; ord. to Cock- pen 28th April 1758; trans, to Lady Yester's, Edinburgh, 22nd Oct. 1767; D.D. (Edinburgh, 1st Feb. 1770); trans, and adm. 21st July 1772. He was app.