278 KIRKURD [PRESB. OF years at Barbados, was a member of the Assembly there, and Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and having made a hand- some fortune, was about to return to Scot- land, when he died in London, 19th Sept. 1749 ; Marion, born 9th Jan. 1681 ; Margaret, born 13th Oct. 1686; Rachel (marr. 16th Aug. 1724, her cousin, John Clelland, merchant, Edinburgh, whose daugh. Margaret was mother of John Jamieson, D.D., author of the Scottish Dictionary), who was buried in Greyfriars, 11th Jan. 1765 (Scots Peerage, I, 549).— [Edin. Counc. Beg. ; MS. Ace. of Min., 1689 ; Scots Mag., xi. ; Chambers's Peebles- shire, Life in Jamieson's Scottish Diet.] ALEXANDER WALKER of Slipper- 1694 ^e^' chaplain to Lord President Lockhart ; schoolmaster, clerk, and precentor at West Linton 22nd May 1692 ; licen. by Presb. of Peebles 7th Dec. 1692 ; pres. by the Presb. jure devoluto 22nd Aug., and ord. 2nd Nov. 1694; res. 13th Feb. 1740, when he retired to his estate, where he died soon afterwards. He marr. Agnes Younger (G. R. Sas., xciii., 45), and had issue—John ; William, min. of Makers- toun ; and two daughs., one of whom marr. a merchant in Newcastle.—[Pennecuik's Works, Arnot's Cr. Trials.] THOMAS GIBSON, licen. by Presb. of 1742 Peekles 3r(* Mardi 1736 ; pres. by James Geddes of Rachan 30th July 1740 ; ord. 27th Oct. 1742 ; died 27th Jan. 1787, in his 76th year. He marr. 14th June 1754, Elizabeth Brown, who died at Hare- hope, May 1794, and had one child, George, born 19th Feb. 1758, W.S. apprentice 1774. — [Sinclair's Stat. Ace., x. ; Chalmers's Caled., ii.] DAVID ANDERSON, born 15th Aug. i"787 1>760 » son °f William A., min. of Manor ; licen. by Presb. of Peebles 7th Dec. 1785 ; pres. by John, Earl of Hyndford, 3rd July, called 20th Sept., and ord. 7th Nov. 1787; died 16th Dec. 1836, in 77th year. He marr. 23rd Jan. 1788, Janet Burn, who died 20th Feb. 1827, and had issue—Janet and William (twins), born 1st Feb. 1799 ; David, min. of Walls and Flotta, born 23rd April 1800 ; Marion, born 22nd March 1803 ; Isabella, born 8th May 1806 ; Walter and Alexander (twins), born 3rd Nov. 1808. Publications —Accounts of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace, x., and Neiv Stat. Ace., iii.) 1837 1843 WALTER PATERSON, born 1790, second son of Walter P., stone- engraver at the Holm of Balma- clellan, and Mary Locke ; educated at Edinburgh Univ. ; Professor of English at Jena, Germany ; pres. by Sir Thomas Carmichael of Skirling, Bart. ; ord. 9th Aug. 1837. Joined the Free Church ; min. of Free Church, Kirkurd, 1843; died unmarr. 22nd June 1849. Publication — The Legend of Iona, with other Poems (Edinburgh, 1814).—[Trotter's East Gallo- ivay Sketches.] THOMAS GRAY, M.A., born Nor- thumberland ; ord. (at Aberdeen) min. of the West Presbyterian Church, Wooler, 6th Oct. 1835; pres. by Sir Thomas Gibson Carmichael, Bart., 2nd Sept. 1843 ; called 15th Sept., and adm. 28th Sept. 1843; res. 14th June 1865 ; died in England 2nd Aug. 1874. He marr. 2nd Nov. 1849, Harriet Barbara Burrell, of Broompark, Alnwick, who died 16th May 1905, and had issue—George Burrell, born 7th Feb. 1851 ; Henry Peareth Burrell, born 16th May 1853, died 17th May 1853. Publication — On the Death of the Patriarch Josejih (Edinburgh, 1845). ROBERT HENDERSON, pres. by the Rev. Sir William H. Gibson Car- 1865 michael, Bart., 20th Sept. 1865; called 20th Oct., and ord. 10th Nov. 1865; trans, to Old Kilpatrick 5th May 1870. JOHN MILNE, M.A. ; pres. by the Rev. Sir William H. Gibson Carmichael, Bart., 29th June 1870; called 4th August, ord. 15th Sept. 1870; trans, to Greenside, Edinburgh, 12th Aug. 1880. THOMAS DUNCAN MILLER, born Perth, 13th July 1851, son of Thomas 1880 M., LL.D., rector of Perth Academy, and Anne Buchanan, Glasgow ; educated at 1870