Edinburgh] EDINBURGH CASTLE-MARINERS 1 CHURCH 1! JAMES GLASGOW, M.A. (Glasgow, 17S8 10t^^arcn m&) > commissioned by George II. 7th July 1737 ; ord. 14th Feb. 1738 ; died 9th Feb. 1746, aged about 48. — [Mun. Univ. Glasg., iii. ; Beg. (Bur.) ; Trtistees Bep., 1745.] WILLIAM SMITH, licen. by Presb. of 7 Haddington 12th Jan. 1727 ; ord. in the Castle 4th Sept. 1746 ; died 6th Feb. 1751.—[Test, and Edin. Beg.] JOHN JOHNSTON, M.A.; ord. 10th 7 M May 1751 ; trans, to Biggar 15th Aug. 1754, having exchanged charges with William Haig.— [Carlyle's Autob., Morren's Ann.] WILLIAM HAIG, son of James H., Orchardfarm, Alloa ; adm. 13th Sept. 1754; died 19th Oct. 1761. LEITH WYND CHAPEL. [Opened as a chapel-of-ease, 18th Nov. 1792 ; declared a parish quoad sacra, 31st May 1834. Closed in 1843.] JOSEPH ROBERTSON, licen. by l7g2 Presb. of Edinburgh 29th Oct. 1788 ; assistant at Stewarton 1790 ; ord. 13th Dec. 1792 ; dem. 21st April, and dep. 2nd May 1818, having been convicted by the High Court of Justiciary of celebrating unlawful marriages, and uttering fabri- cated certificates of proclamations, and banished for life 18th April preceding. He marr., and had issue—Hamilton, died 12th Nov. 1861, aged 21; Joseph, W.S. apprentice 1805. Publications — Lettersand Dialogues on the Lord's Supper (Edin- burgh, 1794) ; translated Lampe's Theologi- cal Dissertations concerning the Endless Duration ofPunishment (Edinburgh, 1796); Outlines ofa Course of Theological Lectures (1799) ; The Traveller's Guide through Scotland (Edinburgh, 1799) ; The Traveller's Guide through Ireland; Theological Lec- tures (Edinburgh, 1806) ; SacredBiography ; Sacred Contemplations ; The Ecclesiastical Biography of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1810) ; A Sermon on the Doctrine of the Trinity, and the Dignity of the Bedeemed (Edin- burgh, 1814). — [Scots Mag., lxxxi.] SAMUEL GEORGE KENNEDY, ord. 1818 10th Dec. 1818 ; resigned 26th April 1820, onappointment toWest Parish, Perth. JOHN THOMSON, ord. 16th Nov. 1820 1820; dem. 28th Jan. 1824, on appointment to Dysart, Second Charge. WILLIAM SIMPSON, M.A., born 1824 Dundee, 1787 ; licen. by Presb. of Cupar 8th Dec. 1807 ; ord. assistant at Arbroath 11th Dec. 1813 ; afterwards assistant at Dairsie ; adm. 21st Oct. 1824. Joined the Free Church ; min. of John Knox's Free Church, Edinburgh, 1843 ; died unmarr. 4th Jan. 1858. Publication — Be- membrance Bemembered (Edinburgh, 1839). MARINERS' CHURCH, LEITH. [Constituted by the General Assembly, 27th May 1839. Became, in 1843, St Ninian's Free Church, Leith.] 1840 JOHN THOMSON, born Edinburgh, 1808, son of James T. and Katherine Oakley ; educated at High School and Univ.; M.A. (1830); licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh; ord. 1840, to the "Bethel" or Floating Chapel in Leith Harbour, previous to the erection of permanent building. Joined Free Church ; min. of St Ninian's Free Church, Leith, 1843; clerk to the Free Synod of Lothian and Tweed- dale ; died 18th Nov. 1881. He marr. 3rd April 1848, Elizabeth Gavin, daugh. of John Brown, D.D., min. of Langton, and had issue— John Brown, I.C.S. ; Katherine Oakley (marr. A. A. Gillies) ; James Douglas ; Georgina Elizabeth (marr. 1883, David Ross, M.A., min. of the Free Church, Crathie, afterwards of St Kilda, Mel- bourne), died 1901. Publications—Trans- lation of Hengstenberg's Commentary on the Psalms ; Stier's Words of Jesus; con- tributed to Kitto's Journal, etc.