318 DALKEITH, WEST—FALA [PRESB. OF JAMES LAMONT, born Rothesay 1820, son of Duncan L. ; educated at18&S Glasgow Univ. ; licen. by Presb. of Dunoon 1855; ord. to Kelvinhaugh, Glas- gow, 20th Dec. 1856; trans, to Broughty Ferry 1856 ; trans, and adm. 8th May 1863; died 25th Nov. 1891. He marr. 7th June 1859, Maria Jane Wallace, who died 29th Aug. 1863. He was an accom- plished amateur astronomer who made his own telescopes. HENRY FARQUHAR, born Guthrie, Forfarshire, 7th Nov. 1860, son of 1833 Alexander F.. farmer, and Elizabeth Mitchell ; educated at Guthrie, Aberdeen Grammar School and Univ., and Edin- burgh Univ. ; M.A. (Aberdeen 1879), B.D. (Edinburgh 1882); licen. by Presb. of Arbroath 16th May 1882 ; assistant at North Leith ; ord. (assistant and suc- cessor) 7th Aug. 1883 ; res. 17th May 1909. He marr. 18th Aug. 1884, Annie Muir, daugh. of Hugh Peace, schoolmaster, Mary- kirk, Kincardineshire, and has issue — James Lamont, banker, London, born 11th March 1887 ; Jessie Semple, born 5th June 1891, died 24th Sept. 1894. Publications— Nature's Story (Edinburgh, 1895); Memorial Sketch ofDr Lucas (Dalkeith, 1905) ; Inter- pretation of Nature (Guild Text-Book, Edinburgh, 1910) ; Frank Mitchell, Gtdlds- man (Edinburgh, 1911); Milicent, serial in Life and Work, 1913 ; editor of Church of Scotland Sabbath School Teachers' Maga- zine, from 1894. 1909 JOHN SCOTT, born Annacloy, Co. Down, Ireland, 9th Aug. 1865, son of John S., Belfast, and Jane Campbell ; educated at Belfast (Queen's andAssembly's Colleges), Royal Univ. of Ireland ; B.A. (1888); licen. by Presb. of Down 1890; min. of Stewartstown Presbyterian Church, Co. Tyrone, 1891, afterwards of Yeoville Presbyterian Church, Johannesburg; adm. by the General Assembly of 1908 as an ord. ! min. of the Church of Scotland ; adm. to this charge 16th Sept. 1909. Marr. 19th Jan. 1893, Mary Emma, daugh. of Joseph Houghton Buckley, Kirkham, Lancashire, and Sally Winterbotham. Publications — The Soldiers of the King (London, 1903) ; Man in the Net (London, 1912). FALA. [Previous to the Reformation the church, dedicated to St Modan, belonged to the Preceptory of Ednam. The kirk was in ruins 6th Sept. 1621.] 1590 JOHN HISLOP, reader. JAMES HAISTIE [HASTINGS], trans. 15gl from Clerkington, and adm. 1591, having Soutra also in charge ; trans, to Temple 1595. — [Reg. Assig.] 1612 JAMES PORTEOUS, min. of Soutra, and his successors were granted in 1612,by Andrew Edmonstone of that ilk, as patron of the Preceptory of Fala, a manse and glebe. They Avere to serve the cure at Fala every alternate Sunday (Reg. of Deeds, ccix., 177). JOHN LOGAN, M.A. (Edinburgh, 27th 1618 ^U^ 1611) > licen - by Presb. of Edin- burgh ; ord. min. of Soutra 1617; became min. of the united parish of Soutra and Fala 20th Feb. 1618. He was a member of the Commission of Assembly 1642, and dem. in Feb. 1674.— [Stat. Reports, 1627 ; Acts of Ass., Wodrow's Hist., New Stat. Ace] GEORGE MOODIE, M.A. (Edinburgh „ 1699) ; licen. by Alexander, Bishop of Edinburgh, 16th April 1673 ; pres. by Thomas Hamilton of Preston ; ord. and coll. 12th May, and inst. 3rd June 1674. Deprived for refusing the Test in 1681 ; afterwards min. of Fogo 1693.— [Beg. ColIat., Wodrow's Hist.] GEORGE JOHNSTON, M.A. ; pres. by the Town Council of Edinburgh 6th Oct. 1682; adm. 12th Jan. 1683; trans, to Burntisland in 1688. ALEXANDER GRANT, son of Duncan G. of Branchell ; educated at the Univ. and King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (11th July 1676); adm. 1689. De- prived by the Privy Council 4th Sept.