1?8 MID-CALDER—WEST CALDER [PRESB. OF 1716; Grisell, born 1720. Publication— Balm for the Wounded Spirit, 1719. He left in MS., Memorabiles temporum circum- stantial ac accidentia, qucedam notanda a Johanne Lukup notata. JAMESWATSON, born Closeburn, 1723, 175g son of John W. ; educated at Glas- gow Univ. ; ord. to Torphichen 1751 ; pres. by Walter, Lord Torphichen ; trans, and adm. 18th Oct. 1759 ; died unmarr. 12th Nov. 1772. JAMES DOBIE, Keen, in Northumber- 1773 land, and received by Presb. of Kelso, 5th Jan. 1773 ; pres. by the tutors of James, Lord Torphichen, and ord. 27th July 1773; trans, to Linlithgow 15th June 1792. JAMES WILSON, M.A.; pres. by 1792 James > Lord Torphichen, and adm. 20th Dec. 1792; trans, to Falkirk 2nd May 1794. JOHN SOMMERS, born in the parish .^g5 of Hamilton, 1765, son of John S., farmer ; educated at Glasgow Univ. ; BA. (1785), M.A (1785); licen. by Presb. of Dumbarton 21st March 1791 ; pres. by James, Lord Torphichen, Oct. 1794 ; ord. 16th April 1795 ; D.D. (Glasgow, 15th May 1818); died 25th Sept. 1842. He marr. 16th Sept. 1811, Isabella Euphemia Hamil- ton (died 13th May 1821), second daugh. of Charles Donaldson of Calcutta, and had issue—John Charles, merchant in London ; Charles ; Euphemia, died 9th Sept. 1821 ; Bethia Hamilton ; Henry William. Publi- cations—Many articles in the Edinburgh Encyclopaedia, of which he was a consider- able proprietor, and editor of the last three volumes ; Account of the Parish {New Stat. Ace, i.), also published privately (1838). WILLIAM WALKER, born Redburn, Torphichen, 4th April 1804, son of James W. and Jane Dale ; edu- cated at Univ. of Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb. of Annan ; pres. by James, Lord Torphichen, Nov. 1843, and ord. 14th Feb. 1843 ; died 2nd Nov. 1882. He marr. 29th Dec. 1852, Anna (died 1st Aug. 1913), daugh. of George Campbell, Prospect House, Newton-Stewart, and had issue—Thomas Charles, M.D., Liverpool; George Alex- ander Campbell, merchant, Buenos Ayres ; William, M.A., missionary of the Church of Scotland at Chamba, Panjab, India, and min. of St Leonard's, Ayr. MATTHEW GARDNER, ord. 24th April ig83 1883 ; trans, to Peebles 20th Sept. 1893. DAVID JOHN MOIR PORTEOUS, 1894 M.A., B.D. ; ord. 23rd March 1894 ; trans, to Port-Glasgow 6th June 1907. WILLIAM WEIR CLARK, born Lark- 1907 hall, 8th March 1875, son of William C. and Elizabeth Kirkwood; edu- cated at Larkhall School and Univ. of Glasgow; MA. (1903), B.D. (1906); licen. by Presb. of Hamilton 5th May 1904; assistant at Paisley Abbey ; assistant garrison chaplain, Edinburgh, 1905-7 ; ord. 20th Sept. 1907. Marr. 8th Jan. 1908, Katherine Robertson, daugh. of Peter Dewar and Isobel Seggie, and has issue—William Arthur Weir, born 5th Dec. 1908. WEST CALDER. [Disjoined from Calder-Comitis, and erected in 1647. Disjoined from Presb. of Linlithgow, and annexed to the Presb. of Edinburgh, May 1884.] PATRICK SHIELDS [SHIELLS], M.A. 1645 (Glasgow 1638) ; ord. to Livingston 9th Dec. 1641 ; trans, and adm. 12th June 1645 ; was on the Commission of Assembly 1647 ; officiated at Mid-Calder in 1646-7 ; suspended by the Diocesan Synod in 1665, for non-conformity ; died in 1668, aged about 50. He marr. (1) Isobel Sandi- lands, who died 7th March 1653, and had issue—James, born 1650 : (2) Margaret, daugh. of James Readdie, schoolmaster at Dunfermline. By her he had Mary ; Marjorie ; James; Walter, served heir 27th Jan. 1670 ; Patrick ; Elizabeth ; Margaret.