180 WEST CALDER—PORTOBELLO [PRESB. OF JOHN WILLISON, pres. by James, Earl ltJQ5 of Lauderdale, who purchased the patronage that year from Alexander Marjoribanks, and ord. 15th Sept. 1785 ; trans, to Forgandenny 17th Sept. 1793. JOHN MACKERSY [MUCKERSEY], 1*794 k°rn 1757, son of John M., min. of the Assoc. Antiburgher Congrega- tion, Kinkell ; licen. by Presb. of Auchter- arder 4th Aug. 1789 ; assistant at Kirk- liston ; pres. by James, Earl of Lauderdale, Oct. 1793; ord. 9th April 1794; D.D. (St Andrews, 2nd Oct. 1819); died 11th June 1831. He marr. (1) Katherine Wallace, who died 24th June 1817, and had issue — John, min. at Macquarrie or Esk River, Tasmania ; Lindsay, accountant in Edin- burgh ; "William, W.S., Edinburgh, born 1795, died 3rd Oct. 1875 : (2) 14th April 1819, Jean (died 10th Nov. 1865, in her 92nd year), eldest daugh. of John Cook, Professor of Moral Philosophy, St Andrews. Publications— Translations of M. Gener, being a Selection of Letters on Life and Manners, 3 vols. (London, 1808-12) ; Sermon preached after the Death of the Rev. Walter Jardine (Edinburgh, 1812) ; View of French Literature during the Eighteenth Century, trans, from the French (Edinburgh, 1814) ; revised the Rudiments of the Latin Tongue (Edinburgh, 1817); Sermon XII. (Gillan's Scott. Pulpit) ; Accounts of Kirkliston and of West Calder (Sinclair's Stat. Ace., x., xviii.). [JOHN JOHNSTON, schoolmaster, West Calder, was presented by the patron, but there was vigorous objection, and his appointment was withdrawn.] WILLIAM LEARMONTH, born 1801, j son of John L., farmer, Nether Kinneil, Bo'ness, and Janet Robert- son ; M.A. (Glasgow 1826) ; licen. by Presb. of Linlithgow 9thMay 1832 ; pres. by James Grindlay in 1834; ord. 14th May 1835; died 31st May 1870. He marr. (1) 9th Jan. 1838, Helen (died 22nd March 1856), daugh. of John Cochrane, farmer Waterstone, Ecclesmachan, and Janet Smellie Robert- son, and had issue—John William, com- mission agent, Edinburgh, born 1840 ; Janet, born 1841 ; James, born 1842, died 1852; William, born 1843; Andrew, born 1844; Ellen Jane Cochrane, born 1847: (2) 13th Sept. 1859, Janet Grey, Ayr, who died 26thMay 1869. Publication—Account of the Parish {New Stat. Ace, L). JOHNDAVIDSONGRANT,bornAber- 1870 deen, 26th Sept. 1826, son of Peter G. and Barbara Davidson ; educated at schools in Perthshire and Forfarshire, and St Andrews and Edinburgh Univs. ; licen. by Presb. of Lanark 4th June 1856 ; assistant at Carluke ; ord. to Calderhead 18th Feb. 1859 ; pres. by John Drysdale of Kilrie, and adm. 25th Aug. 1870 ; died at Portobello from the effects of an accident, 7th Feb. 1914. Marr. 28th June 1864, Margaret (died 11th July 1912), only child of Thomas Hunter, solicitor, Maxwelltown, Dumfries, and Agnes Glendinning. JAMES ALEXANDER ANDERSON, born Londonderry, 1st July 1860, son of Adam A. and Elizabeth Todd ; educated at Magee College, Queen's and Assembly's Colleges, Belfast and Dublin ; licen. by Presb. of Glendermott May 1885 ; ord. to the first congregation at Ballywalter, Belfast, 23rd Feb. 1886 ; adm. (assistant and successor) 1st Nov. 1894. Marr. 1st Dec. 1886, Margaret, daugh. of Andrew Melville and Agnes Burns, both of Argyllshire, and has issue— Gustave Alexander Melville, M.B., Ch.B., R.N., born 31st Aug. 1888; Winifred, M.A., born 3rd May 1890 (marr. 12th Aug. 1914, David M'Vicker, M.B., Ch.B., Peterborough) ; Olivia, born 2nd Dec. 1898; Eva, born 26th April 1900; Frederick Percival, born 1st Aug. 1903. PORTOBELLO (Q.S.). [The foundation stone of the church was laid on 27th Oct. 1808, the building being opened in 1810, as a chapel-of-ease to Duddingston. Declared a parish quoad sacra by Act of Assembly, 31st May 1834, and erected by the Court of Teinds, 17th July 1861.] [THOMAS WRIGHT, M.A., was app. "preacher," and served till 1814, when he was pres. to the parish of Borthwick.]