PEEBLES] TRAQUAIR—TWEEDSMUIR 295
burgh Univs. ; B.A. (Glasgow 1853) ; licen.
by Presb. of Dumfries 1856; assistant at
Middlebie and Traquair; pres. by Queen
Victoria 16th Feb. 1859 ; called 23rd March,
and ord. (assistant and successor) 28th April
1859 ; died 27th Nov. 1910 ; Father of the
Presbytery. He marr. 15th Aug. 1861,
Agnes Mary (daugh. of his predecessor),who
died 11th Nov. 1881, and had issue—Robert
Wilfred, min. of St Leonard's, St Andrews,
born 24th Nov. 1862; Jardine, merchant,
New York, born 20th June 1865; Mary
Elizabeth, born 8th Feb. 1867 (marr.
William Stobie, solicitor, Innerleithen)
;
Ida Stuart, born 10th Nov. 1868 (marr.
John Muir, farmer) ; James Campbell,
farmer, Argentine Republic, born 4th Aug.
1871 ; Charles Stuart, min. of Kirkma-
breck, born 2nd April 1875. Publications
—Christendom : Its Unity and Diversity,
a Synod sermon, 1870 (2nd edition, 1907);
ed. Poetical Works of Thomas Aird, with
a Biography (Edinburgh, 1878); Farewell
Address to the Parishioners of Traquair
(1908).
1908
JOHN MAIN, born Nairn, 25th Sept.
1876, son of James Howie M. and
Catherine M'Intosh ; educated at
Nairn Academy and Glasgow Univ. ; M.A.
;
licen. by Presb. of Glasgow 1st May 1907
;
assistant at Traquair ; ord. (assistant and
successor) 19th Nov. 1908. Marr. 28th
July 1910, Elizabeth Kidd, daugh. of James
Campbell and Mary Grier, Prestonpans.
TWEEDSMUIR.
[Originally Upper Drumelzier. Dis-
joined in 1643 ; the first church built 1648,
and the present edifice 1874. A chapel
dedicated to St Cuthbert existed here
before the Reformation.]
ALEXANDER TROTTER, ord. to
Bara, Haddington, 1628 ;"] entered
on his duties here 7th Jan. 1644
;
pres. by John, Earl of Wigtown, in Dec.
1647; adm. 10th Aug. 1648; died 24th
June 1661, in his 63rd year. He "was very
careful and diligent to establish good order
and church discipline." He marr. a daugh.
of David Ogill, min. of Bara, and had
1644
issue—Thomas.
—
[Haddingt. Presb., Peter-
kin's Records.]
ROBERT SCOTT, M.A. (St Andrews
1662 1632) > adm ' to Eddleston 24tn Sept.
1640; dep. 5th May 1659; reponed
4th Dec. 1660; pres. by John, Earl of
Wigtown, 30th Sept. 1661 ; his admission
was appointed for 3rd Jan. 1662, but a
change having taken place in Church
government, it was delayed ; he was again
pres. 2nd May, coll. 22nd June {Reg. of
Deeds, Durie, 21st Nov. 1672), and adm.
and inst. 17th July 1662; died Oct.
1674, aged about 62. He marr. (name
unknown), and had issue—Francis, his
successor.—[Reg. Old Dec, ii. ; Connell on
Tithes.]
FRANCIS SCOTT, son of preceding;
ie75 studied at the Univ. of Glasgow,
where he held a bursary from the
Presb. in 1663 ; pres. by William, Earl of
Wigtown, 16th Feb. (Reg. of Deeds, Durie,
27th July 1676), ord. and coll. (at Edin-
burgh) by Robert Leighton, Archbishop of
Glasgow, 29th July; adm. and inst. 15th
Aug. 1675. There was no sermon, 3rd Oct.
1680, " the min. hardlie daring stay sermon
for murderers, or robbers, falling upon him,
as of other min. in the Presb.
;
'; "outed'
J
after 9th May 1688. He marr. (1) Feb.
1677, Barbara Dalmahoy, of the Canongate,
Edinburgh, who died in childbirth, 19th
Sept. 1680: (2) 14th March 1683, Mary
Balfour, Edinburgh, and had issue
—
Catherine (marr. 5th June 1742, James
Chalmers, Professor of Chemistry, Maris-
chal College, Aberdeen) ; Rachel (marr.
13th April 1718, John Jack, slater, Edin-
burgh); Margaret (G. R. Inhib., 21st July
1709).
—
[Canong. and Edin. Reg. (Marr.);
MS. Ace. of Min., 1689 ; Wodrow's Hist.]
JAMES THOMSON, called in 1687;
1688 ort*' ^at^e Crook, the meeting-place
of the Presbyterians) 5th Sept. 1688 ;
trans, to Peebles 25th Nov. 1696.
WILLIAM HIGGINS [HEGAN,
16Q8 HEGANS], merchant, and one of
the bailies of Linlithgow ; sat for six
sessions (1689-1700) as Member of Parlia-