EDINBURGH] SOUTH LEITH 167 JOHN GILCHRIST, M.A.; called by the Kirk-session and delegates from the Incorporations 20th June, and ord. 11th Sept. 1695. He was one of forty- four sent to supply the want of Presbyterian min. in the North (1696), of whom twenty- two, it was agreed, should remain, if they received calls ; trans, to Alves 16th May 1697.—{Acta of Ass., 1695, 1697.] JAMES DICKSON, M.A. ; called 23rd l700 April, and ord. 16th July 1700; trans, to Markinch 23rd Jan. 1712. WILLIAM BROWN, M.A. ; called 11th 1712 April, and ord. 25th July 1712. He scrupled to take the Oath of Abjura- tion same year, and was trans, to Lady Yester's, Edinburgh, 19th Jan. 1721. JAMES STEVENSON, M.A.; called 1721 20th April, and ord. 17th Aug. 1721. He had no sermon at the opening of Synod, 30th April 1745, for fear of the rebels, but was re-elected Moderator, and had the honour of signing an address to the King. Trans, to New Greyfriars, Edinburgh, 20th June 1745.—[Act Beet. Univ. St And., Scoonie Sess. Beg.] ROBERT WALKER, trans, from 1746 Straiton ; called 15th May, and adm. 20th Nov. 1746; trans, to St Giles, Edinburgh, 11th Oct. 1754.— [Kay's Port?-., i. ; Sermons, iii.] ALEXANDER STUART, pres. by George II. and by the Kirk-session and Incorporation of Shipmasters, and ord. 10th July 1755; trans, to St Cuthbert's 10th June 1762. THOMAS SCOTT, M.A. ; trans, from 1762 havers ; pres. by the Kirk-session, etc., 9th Aug., and adm. 12th Nov. 1762; trans, to First Charge 26th Oct. 1765. HENRY HUNTER, born 25th Aug. 17Q6 1741, fifth son of David H. and Agnes H, Culross ; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh; tutor to Claude Irvine Boswell, later Lord Balmuto, and in the family of Archibald, Earl of Dun- donald ; licen. by Presb. of Dunferm- line 2nd May 1764, assistant to William Arthur, First Charge, for some months before his death (Home Office Gal., 1760-5, No. 1908); pres. by the Magistrates, etc., in 1766; ord. 9th Jan. 1766; dem. (on receiving a call to the Scots Church, London-Wall), 31st July, and adm. there 11th Aug. 1771; D.D. (Edinburgh, soon after) ; Secretary to the Board of the Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge, 5th Aug. 1790; died 27th Oct. 1802, and interred in Bunhill Fields. He marr. 21st May 1766, Margaret (died 25th July 1803), daugh. of Thomas Charters, min. of Inverkeith- ing, and had issue—David, born 27th Feb. 1767, died 2nd Nov. 1767; Samuel, born 11th May 1768, and others, most of whom died young. Publications—Thirteen single Sermons (London, 1774-98); Sacred Bio- graphy, 6 vols. (London, 1783-92; 8th ed., 1820) ; Sermon V. (Scotch Preacher, iii. ; Edinburgh, 1789) ; A Brief History of the Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge (London, 1795); Ser- mons, 2 vols. (London, 1795); A History of London and its Environs (London, 1796) ; Charge at the Ordination of William Nicol (Steven's Sermons, London, 1796); Lectures on the Evidences of Christianity (begun by John Fell; London, 1798); Sermons, and other Miscellaneous Pieces, 2 vols. (London, 1804). Translated from the French—Lavater's Essays on Physi- ognomy, 5 vols. (London, 1789-98) ; Studies of Nature, by St Pierre, 5 vols. (London, 1796-7); Sermons, by Saurin (vol. vi. ; London, 1796); Travels in Egypt, by Sonnini de Manencourt, 3 vols. (London, 1799); Life of Catherine II., Empress of Russia, by Castera, 2 vols. (1800); and from the German—Letters to a German Princess, by Euler, 2 vols. (London, 1795; new ed., 1846). — \_Sermons and Misc. Pieces, i. ; Wilson's Diss. Churches, Lond. ; Diet. Nat. Biog.] JOHN LOGAN, born in 1748, at Soutra, l773 Midlothian, was son of George L., farmer, and Janet, daugh. of John Waterston or Weatherston, Stow. He