EDINBURGH] CRAMOND 13
tary of the Colonial Committee, born 22nd
July 1801, died 20th Dec. 1863 ; Ann, born
17th June 1804 (marr. John Morrison,min. of
Free Church, Port-Glasgow), died 21st Feb.
1875 ; Bridget Black, born 8th July 1807,
died 8th June 1838 ; Sarah, born 1st June
1809, died 28th Feb. 1895. Publications—
Genuine Religion the Best Friend of the
People (Edinburgh, 1796); A Sermon
preached before the Society for the Benefit
of the Sons of the Clergy (Edinburgh,
1800); Sermons, with Memoir by his
brother James (Edinburgh, 1815-17, 2
vols.).
—
[Sermons, ii. ; Wood's Cramond,
Family Papers^\
GEORGE MUIRHEAD, born 11th Feb.
1816 ^4, son of Patrick M., D.D., min.
of Dysart ; educated at Univ. of
Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of Hamilton 25th
Sept. 1787 ; ord. to Dysart, Second Charge,
4th Sept. 1788; trans, to First Charge
10th June 1807; pres. by William Ramsay
of Barnton, trans, and adm. 24th Oct.
1816; D.D. (Glasgow, 8th Nov. 1816).
He was the oldest ordained min. who
joined the Free Church ; min. of Cramond
Free Church 1843; died 5th April 1847.
He marr. 27th Aug. 1807, Maxwell (died
18th Aug. 1854), daugh. of Thomas Fleming,
D.D., min. of Lady Yester's, and had issue
—Anne, born 12th Sept. 1808; Elizabeth,
born 1st June 1815 ; Patrick Thomas, min.
of the Free Church, Kippen, born 9th Nov.
1819, died 1888; Isabella Maxwell, born
2nd Nov. 1822. Publications
—
Sermon on
the Death of Thomas Davidson, D.D.
(Edinburgh, 1827) ; Sermon on the Death
of George Wright, D.D. (Stirling, 1827);
Pastoral Address to the Inhabitants of
Cramond Parish (Edinburgh, 1837) ; Hints
respecting the Loiu State of Vital Godliness
among Professing Christians ; Conversion
of the Jews (Edinburgh, 1842) ; Account of
Dysart (Sinclair's Stat. Ace, xii.).
WALTER LAIDLAW COLVIN, born
4th June 1812, son of Robert O, D.D.,
min. of Johnstone, Dumfriesshire
;
educated at Glasgowand Edinburgh Univs.
;
M.A. (Glasgow 1830); licen. by Presb. of
Lochmaben 5th Aug. 1834 ; assistant at
East Kilbride; ord. to Shotts 11th Aug.
1843
1836 ; trans, and adm. 2nd Nov. 1843
;
D.D. (Glasgow, 26th April 1859) ; died 19th
Nov. 1877. He marr. 22nd Oct. 1844, Anne
Grace (died 9th March 1896), daugh. of
William Hine, Falmouth, Jamaica, and had
issue—Mary Ramsay, born 23rd Jan. 1846
(marr. William Macfie of Clermiston), died
11th Aug. 1895; Eliza, born 5th March
1847 ; Annie Marion, born 26th March 1849,
died 21st July 1895; Walter Robert, born
6th July 1850, died at San Francisco 1872 ;
Alice Jane, born 18th Oct. 1851 ; Jessie
Louisa, born 1853; William, stockbroker,
Glasgow, born 17th Dec. 1854 ; Francis
Henry, M.B., CM., born 1856, died 17th
June 1895 ; Victor Albert, min. at Connel
Ferry; Charles Edward, died young.
Publications—Two Sermons on Election
and the Extent of the Atonement (Edin-
burgh, 1843) ; Sermon preached before
the Society for the Sons of the Clergy
(Glasgow, 1868); "Accounts of Cramond
and of Shotts " {New Stat. Ace, vols, i., vi.).
GEORGE WILSON, trans, from Tol-
booth, Edinburgh, and adm. 11th
July 1878 ; res. 4th May 1887 to be-
come min. of St Michael's Mission Church,
and first min. of St Michael's Parish.
JOHN WEBSTER, born Forglen, 1827,
son of Robert W. ; educated at
King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A.
(1843) ; schoolmaster of Banchory-Devenick
1844-52; licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen
Murray Lecturer at King's College, 1850
52; ord. to Strichen 2nd Sept. 1852
trans, to East Anstruther 29th Oct. 1857
trans, to Cameron 10th March 1864 ; trans
to St John's, Edinburgh, 28th Dec. 1876
trans, and adm. 11th March 1884; D.D.
(Aberdeen 1885) ; res. 16th Oct. 1889 ; died
23rd Jan. 1903. He marr. 10th Feb. 1857,
Anna Milne, who died 30th May 1913, and
had issue—James Melville, died 11th June
1913 ; Edward, solicitor, Edinburgh ; and
others. Publication—Two Lectures from a
series of discourses on the Epistle to the
Hebrews and on the Parables, 2 vols.
(Aberdeen, 1852).
THOMAS MARTIN, M.A. ; trans, from
Forgan 17th May 1890; trans, to St
Mary's, Edinburgh, 15th May 1896.
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