80 LADY GLENORCHY'S—LADY YESTER'S [PRESB. OF
Co)igregational Independency in Scotland,
Fraser's Maxwells of Pollok, Diet. Nat.
Biog.]
JOHN PURVES, nom. (assistant and
successor) by the Trustees, and ord.
14th April 1826 ; res. 27th Oct. 1830
on presentation to Jedburgh.
JAMES BEGG, trans, from Maxwell-
town ; nom. by the Trustees (assistant
and successor), and adm. 23rd Dec.
1830 ; trans, to Middle Church, Paisley,
25th Nov. 1831.
1831
THOMAS LIDDELL, trans, from Mon-
trose Chapel-of-Ease ; nom. (assistant
and successor) by the Trustees, and
adm. 22nd Dec. 1831 ; res. on app. as first
Principal of Queen's College, Kingston,
Canada, 27th Oct. 1841 ; [afterwards min.
of Lochmaben].
GEORGERAMSAY DAVIDSON, born
1842 Brecnm > 1801, son of David D. ;
educated at Brechin Grammar
School and St Andrews Univ. ; M.A.
(1820) ; licen. by Presb. of St Andrews
25th June 1823; ord. to Drumblade 8th
May 1828 ; trans, and adm. 14th July
1842. Joined the Free Church ; min. of
Free Lady Glenorchy's, Edinburgh, 1843;
D.D. (St Andrews); died 17th May 1890.
He marr. 8th June 1830, Jessie (died 10th
Sept. 1876), daugh. of William Lumsden,
architect, Edinburgh, and had issue—Eliza
Maule, born 4th March 1831 (marr. 13th
June 1851, Sir Thomas Clark, Bart.)
;
Mary, born 15th Feb. 1833 (marr.
Alexander Cusin, her father's successor, in
Lady Glenorchy's Free Church) ; George
Ramsay, born 29th Jan. 1836 ; David
William, born 12th Feb. 1838. Publica-
tions— Privilege and Duty, a Pastoral
Address (Edinburgh, 1845); Britain's Past
Policy, Penitence, and Pledge, a sermon
(Edinburgh, 1857); Account of the Parish
of Drumblade {New Stat. Ace, xii.).
DANIEL M'LAREN, ord. 29th Jan.
iooo 1863; trans, to Carluke 19thJ.OOO _ , -
March 1874.
JOHN GRIGOR, trans, from Fullarton,
18?4 Irvine, and adm. 24th Sept. 1874
;
trans, to St David's, Glasgow, 16th
Nov. 1876.
ANDREW FYFE BURNS, M.A. ; trans,
from St James's, Kirkcaldy, and adm.
17th May 1877 ; trans, to St George's,
Paisley, 21st March 1882.
1877
1882
THOMASBURNS, born 3rd March 1853,
son of Thomas B., min. of Lesma-
hagow ; educated at Glasgow High
School and Univ. ; licen. by Presb. of
GlasgowMay 1876 ; assistant at St George's
Parish, Glasgow; ord. to Melville Parish,
Montrose, 8th Nov. 1877 ; trans, and adm.
30thAug. 1882 ; governor ofGeorge Heriot's
Trust 1890 ; chairman of Royal Blind
Asylum 1894 ; deputy - chairman, Edin-
burgh School Board 1903 ; convener of the
General Assembly's Committee on Benefice
Register and Records of the Church ; D.D.
(Glasgow 1906) ; F.R.S.E., F.S.A.Scot. He
marr. 3rd June 1890, Sarah Frances Town-
send, daugh. of Charles Wilson Murray of
Croston Towers, Alderly Edge, and grand-
daughter of Sir Hugh Lyon Playfair,
LL.D., St Andrews, and has issue—Agnes
Mary Frances, born 26th April 1891
;
Reginald Thomas Murray, born 9th Aug.
1892 ; Norman Frederick MacGregor, born
4th April 1902. Publications—Old Scottish
Communion Plate (Edinburgh, 1896)
;
American Educational Institutions and
Methods (1901) ; Benefice Lectures, de-
livered at the four Scottish Universities
(Edinburgh, 1905).
LADY YESTERS.
[Founded by Margaret, third daugh. of
Mark, first Earl of Lothian, and wife of
James, seventh Lord Hay of Yester. She
died 15th March 1647. The church was
badly damaged by Cromwell's soldiers
in Nov. 1650, but being restored, was
erected into a parish church, 24th Aug.
1655, for the south-east portion of the
city. During the Episcopacy it was shut
up and the parish annexed to the Tron.