edinbuegh] LADY YESTEITS 83
15th Sept. 1785 ; pres. by the Town Council
25th June, trans, and adm. 20th Nov. 1794 ;
died 24th Feb. 1806. He marr. 26th March
1795, Agnes (died 14th Sept. 1844), daugh.
of George Wood of Warriston, and had
issue—Agnes, born 30th Jan. 1796, died
17th Oct. 1812 ; Jean MacVicar, born 30th
April 1797, died 6th Feb. 1799 ; Elizabeth,
born 20th Sept. 1798 ; Jean MacVicar,
born 24th May 1800; Veronica, born 15th
July 1802, died 31st Oct. 1816; David,
born 20th Feb. 1804 ; Bridget Bonar, born
4th June 1806, died 4th May 1819. Publi-
cations—Two single Sermons (Edinburgh,
1798-1803) ; Sermons on Important Sub-
jects, with an Account of the Author
(Edinburgh, 1808); Account of St Madoes
(Sinclair's Stat. Ace, iii.).—[Bonar's Serm.,
i. ; Kay's Portr., Haldane's Mem.]
1806
THOMAS FLEMING, born 1754, a
native of Kirkmichael, Perthshire
;
educated at the Parish School of
Blairgowrie and Perth Grammar School,
and at the Univs. of St Andrews and Edin-
burgh ; tutor to the Haldanes of Airthrey ;
licen. by Presb. of Dundee 5th Nov. 1777;
ord. to Kirkmichael 29th April 1779 ; trans.
to Kenmore 24th Aug. 1780 ; trans, to
Kirkcaldy 10th July 1788 ; D.D. (Harvard,
U.S.A., 1804); pres. by the Town Council
18th June, trans, and adm. 23rd Oct. 1806 ;
died 19th July 1824. "The benevolent
institutions of the city reaped much
advantage from his friendly counsels and
aid. He was particularly attentive to
the affairs of George Heriot's Hospital, the
Orphan Hospital, the Edin. Education
Society, and the Society for Propagating
Christian Knowledge." He marr. 14th
Nov. 1780, Anne Robertson, who died 17th
April 1829, in 78th year, and had issue
—
William, banker in Edinburgh, born 28th
Aug. 1786; Thomas, lieut. 1st Batt. Berar
Native Infantry, born 22nd Dec. 1797, died
March 1821 ; Maxwell, born 9th Aug. 1781
(marr. 7th Aug. 1807, George Muirhead,
D.D., min. of Cramond) ; Catherine, born
30th Jan. 1785 (marr. 28th March 1810,
George Lyon of Wester Ogill, W.S.)
;
Isabella, born 27th March 1783, died 9th
Sept. 1852 ; Grace, born 14th July 1790
;
Anne Campbell, born 13th July 1792;
James, born 6th May 1794. Publications
—Three single Sermons (Edinburgh, 1790-
1809); Sermons (Edinburgh, 1826); "A
Remarkable Agitation of the Waters of
Loch Tay" {Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin.); Ac-
count of Kirkcaldy (Sinclair's Stat. Ace,
xviii.) ; " Memoir of Robert Cathcart of
Drum " (Edin. Chr. Inst., vi.) ; Translated
the Shorter Catechism into Gaelic, and
assisted in revising the Gaelic Translation
of the Scriptures, published by the Society
for Propagating Christian Knowledge.
—
[Sermons, Tombst., Society Sermons; Scots
Mag., xciv. ; Stewart's Sermons (Mem.).]
JOHN LEE, D.D. ; trans, from Canon-
1825 ^a^e > Pres - by the Town Council in
1824; trans, and adm. 17th Feb.
1825 ; trans, to the Old Church 22nd Jan.
1835.
ARCHIBALD BENNIE, born Glasgow,
1835 1st Nov. 1797, fourth son of William
B., merchant ; educated at Univ. of
Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow
Sept. 1820 ; ord. min. of Albion Street
Chapel, Glasgow, 6th March 1823 ; trans,
to Third Charge, Stirling, 28th Oct. 1824
;
trans, to Second Charge 17th June 1825
;
trans, to First Charge 31st March 1829 ; pres.
by the Town Council, trans, and adm. 24th
Sept. 1835 ; one of Her Majesty's Chaplains
in Ordinary ; Dean of the Chapel Royal
1841 ; D.D. (Glasgow, 10th Jan. 1845) ; died
at Dunoon 21st Sept. 1846. He marr. 9th
July 1827, Eliza (died 25th Nov. 1867),
only child of James Noble, collector of
Excise, Stirling, and had issue— Ann
Young, born 10th May 1828 ; Agnes Mary,
born 7th Aug. 1829 ; James Noble, L.L.D.,
Canon of Peterborough, born 6th Jan. 1831,
died 27th March 1899 ; Elizabeth Noble
;
Archibald, born 8th Nov. 1836. Publica-
tions—Five single Sermons, Christian
Benevolence, etc. (1825-39); Letter to Patrick
ArJcley, Esq., Advocate (Edinburgh, 1846)
;
Discourses, with a Memoir, by Rev. John
Paul (Edinburgh, 1847). He edited the
Edin. Christian Instructor (Edinburgh,
1836, 1837, Third Series, 2 vols.).—[Smith's
Scott. Clergy, i. ; Tombst.]