EDINBURGH] CANONGATE 29
1755
HUGH BLAIR, M.A. ; trans, from Col-
174„ lessie ; called 13th Jan. and 10th
Feb., and adm. 14th July 1743;
trans, to Lady Yester's, Edinburgh, 11th
Oct. 1754.—[Bonar's Canongate.']
JOHN WARDEN, son of John W., min.
of Gargunnock ; M.A., (Glasgow,
May 1725) ; licen. by Presb. of Stir-
ling 9th Dec. 1730; ord. to Campsie 21st
March 1732; trans, to Perth 19th March
1747 ; pres. by the Heritors and Kirk-
session (another presentation being given
by George II. on 16th Jan. 1755 (R. Sec.
Sig., 560) to Hugh Bannatine, min. of
Dirleton ; both were withdrawn, and a
moderation at large allowed). He was
called 21st Aug., and adm. 6th Nov. 1755
;
died 29th Dec. 1764. He marr. (1) Anne,
daugh. of Hugh MacFarlan of Ballan-
cleroch, and had issue—Elizabeth ; Helen ;
Margaret ; Lilias, born 26th Dec. 1738
;
John, his successor ; William, born 5th
Oct. 1745 ; James, born 21st Jan. 1747 : (2)
13th Feb. 1750, Janet (died 18thMarch 1762),
daugh. of James Campbell of Burnbank.
Publications
—
An Inquiry into the Nature,
Obligation, and Advantages of Religious
Fellowship) (1746) ; The Happiness of
Britain illustrated, a sermon (Edinburgh,
1749) ; A System of Revealed Religion,
composed in the express Words of Sc7'ip-
ture (London, 1769 ; another edition, 1843).
JOHN WARDEN [MACFARLAN],
17
_ born 29th May 1740, son of pre-
ceding; educated at Univ. of St
Andrews ; M.A. (1761) ; licen. by Presb. of
Edinburgh 27th Oct. 1762 ; elected by the
Heritors and Kirk-session 17th Jan., and
ord. 18th April 1765. Assumed the name
of MacFarlan on succeeding to the estate
of Ballancleroch ; D.D. (Edinburgh, 2nd
March 1778) ; secretary to the Society
for Propagating Christian Knowledge,
1784 ; Almoner to His Majesty 12th
July 1785; died 24th Dec. 1788. He
marr. 16th Feb. 1766, Helen (died 10th
May 1819), daugh. of James Macdowall
of Canonmills, and had issue—John of
Ballancleroch, advocate, born 12th Jan.,
1767, died 18th Dec. 1846; Lilias, born
16th Aug. 1768, died 15th April 1769 ; Ann,
born 5th Dec. 1769, died 13th Nov. 1774
;
James, born 22nd Jan. 1771 ; William, born
17th June 1772, died 18th Dec. 1772;
Archibald, born 15th April 1774 ; Elizabeth
Home, born 13th Aug. 1775, died 1794;
William, born 2nd Dec. 1776 ; Hew, born
31st March 1778, died 29th July 1778;
Helen, born 15th Sept. 1779 ; Patrick, min.
of Greenock, born 4th April 1781. Publi-
cations
—
On the Perpetuity of the Gospel
Dispensation, a sermon (Edinburgh, 1778)
;
A Defence of the Clergy of the Church of
Scotland who have appeared in Opposition
to an unlimited Repeal of the Penal Laws
againstRoman Catholics (Edinburgh, 1779)
;
Inquiries concerning the Poor (Edinburgh,
1782) ; A Summary Account of the Rise
and Progress of the Society in Scotland
forPropagating ChristianKnowledge (Edin-
burgh, 1783) ; Tracts on Subjects ofNational
Importance (London, 1786) ; revised his
father's System of Revealed Religion (see
Scotch Preacher, 1789).—[Moncreiff's Life
of Erskine, Bonar's Canongate.']
WALTER BUCHANAN, born 11th Jan.
-,-__ 1755, second son of Andrew B., malt-
man, Glasgow ; educated at Univ. of
Glasgow ; M.A. (1774) ; licen. by Presb. of
Glasgow 2nd Dec. 1778; ord. to Stirling
23rd Nov. 1780 ; elected by the Magis-
trates, Kirk - session, Deacons of Crafts,
and Heritors 19th Feb., and adm. 18th
June 1789; D.D. (Edinburgh, 9th Dec.
1805); died 6th Dec. 1832. He was the
friend of Charles Simeon of Cambridge,
who thought ''it one of his greatest
blessings to have known him." He marr.
22nd Feb. 1785, Margaret Stobie, who died
28th July 1847. Publications—The Bene-
ficial Influence of the Gospel, a sermon
preached before the Christian Knowledge
Society (Edinburgh, 1804) ; Account of the
Life of John Witherspoon, D.D., LL.D.
(Witherspoon's Works, i.) ; edited The Re-
ligious Monitor till its close in 1819.
—
[Haldane's Mem., Bonar's Canongate,
Tombst.]
JOHN CLARK, M.A. ; trans, from New
Street Chapel ; pres. by the Heritors,1833
etc., and adm. 12th Sept. 1833 ; trans,
to the Old Kirk 6th June 1844.