92 ST BERNARD'S [PKESB. OF 1859 1866 ANDREW KENNEDY HUTCHISON BOYD, trans, from Kirkpatrick- Irongray, and adm. ]4th April 1859 ; trans, to St Andrews, First Charge, 14th Sept. 1865. JOHN M'MURTKTE, born Ayr, 16th Dec. 1831, son of John M., bank agent, Dean of the Faculty of Pro- curators, Ayr, and Agnes Tweedie, claugh. of James Nichol, Glasgow ; educated at Ayr I Academy and Edinburgh Univ. ; B.A. j (1854), MA. (1856) ; licen. by Presb. of Ayr | 12th Aug. 1856 ; assistant atNew Kilpatrick j 1856; ord. assistant at St George's, Edin- ! burgh, 12th April 1858 ; adm. to Mains and Strathmartine 2nd Sept. 1858; trans, and adm. 11th Jan. 1866; res. 7th July 1885, on appointment as convener of the Church of Scotland Foreign Mission Committee, which he held till May 1908 ; Moderator of the General Assembly 1904; D.D. (Aber- deen 1890), F.R.S.E. (1893), Fellow of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, member of Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland; died 2nd April 1912. He marr. lOth July 1875, Beatrice Somerville, daugh. of Alexander Brodie, Edinburgh, and had issue—Elizabeth Somerville, missionary at Kikuyu, East Africa, 1912, born 19th May 1876 ; Agnes Katherine, born 19th Feb. 1878 ; John, min. of Skene, born 2nd March 1879 ; Beatrice Somerville Brodie, M.A., classical mistress, Kentish Town School, London, born 16th July 1880; Isabel Mary Dorothea, born 12th Dec. 1881 ; Alexander Church Brodie, M.D., F.R.C.S.E., born 12th May 1883. Publications—Editor of Life and Work for nineteen years ; papers to Journal of Conchology ; etc. GEORGE MATHESON, born Glasgow, 27th March 1842, eldest son of George M., merchant, and Jane, daugh. of John Matheson of the Fereneze Print Works, Barrhead ; educated at Glasgow Academy and Univ.; B.A. (1861), M.A. (1862), B.D. (1866); licen. by Presb. of Glasgow 13th June 1866 ; assistant at Sandyford ; ord. to Innellan 8th April 1868 ; declined a call to Crown Court, London ; D.D. (Edinburgh 1879), F.R.S.E.; Baird Lecturer 1881 ; trans, and adm. 12th May 1886; res. 26th July 1899; app. Gifford Lecturer in Univ. of Aberdeen for 1900-2, but declined ; LL.D. (Aberdeen 1902) ; died unmarr. at North Berwick, 28th Aug. 1906. He was blind from his eighteenth year. Publications— Aids to the Stud)/ of German Theology (1874) ; The Growth of the Spirit of Christianity (1877) ; Natural Elements of Revealed Theology (Baird Lecture, 1881); Confucianism (St Giles Lecture, 1882) ; My Aspirations (1882) ; Moments on the Mount (1884) ; The Religious Bearings of the Doctrine ofEvolu- tion (1884) ; Can the Old Faith Live tvith the New? (1885); The Psalmist and the Scientist (1887) ; Landmarks of New Testa- ment Morality (1888) ; Voices of the Spirit (1888); Sacred Songs (1890); Spiritual Develojwient of St Paul (1891) (translated into Chinese) ; Distinctive Messages of the Old Religions (1892) ; Searchings in the Silence (1895) ; Words by the Wayside (1896); The Lady Ecclesia (1896); Side- lightsfrom Patmos (1897) ; Bible Definition of Religion (1898) ; Studies of the Portrait of Christ (vol. i., 1899 ; vol. ii., 1900) ; Times of Retirement (1901) ; The Sceptre without a Sword (1901) ; The Representative Men of the Bible (First Series, 1902 ; Second Series, 1903) ; The Representative Men of the New Testament (1905) ; Leaves for Quiet Hours (1904); Rests by the River (1906); The Women of the Bible (1907); numerous contributions to contemporary literature ; author of the hymn, "O Love that wilt not let me go. :' — [Life, by D. Macmillan, D.D., 1907 ; Diet. Nat. Biog.] JAMES JOHNSTONE DRUMMOND, lgq ,_ M.A., B.D. ; trans, from Longfor- macus, and adm. (assistant and successor) 22nd Oct. 1897 ; trans, to Jed- burgh 7th Dec. 1899. ALEXANDER FIDDES, born 17th Jan. 1860, son ofEdward F.,joint-manager of North of Scotland Bank, Aber- deen ; educated at Aberdeen Univ. ; M.A. (1879), B.D. (1882); licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen 2nd May 1882; ord. to Cairney 21st Jan. 1886 ; trans, to St Bernard's 17th May 1900. Marr. 10th Feb. 1886, Mary Ross, eldest daugh. of Colonel James 1900