EDINBURGH] THE TRON 137 John Campbell of Orchard, and had issue—Ann; Janet (marr. 12th June 1750, Major-General John Beckwith, of Viscount Bury's Regiment), died 28th July 1827, aged 97 ; Margaret ; Elizabeth Marion, born 8th May 1739; Jane, born 20th Sept. 1742 (marr. 13th Sept. 1765, Baron von West- phalen) ; George, born 3rd Dec. 1748, died 4th March 1760. Publications—Four single Sermons (Edinburgh, 1733-40) ; A Letter to the author {Logan) of a pamphlet in- tituled Lawfulness and Necessity of Ministers, their Reading the Act of Parliament for bringing to Justice the Murderers of Captain John Porteous (Edinburgh, 1737).—[Wodrow's Anal., iii., iv. ; Drysdale's, i., and Erskine's Disc, i. ; Mackenzie's Life of Home, Morren's Ann., Carlyle's Autob. ; Kay's Portr., i. ; M'Ure's Glasg.] ANDREW HUNTER of Barjarg, Dum- 1786 friesstiire, born 1743, eldest son of Andrew H., W.S., Edinburgh, and Grisell Maxwell of Cardoness ; educated at High School and Univ., Edinburgh ; ord. to Second Charge, Dumfries, 20th Sept. 1770; D.D. (Edinburgh 1779); trans, to New Greyfriars, Edinburgh, 25th Nov. 1779; pres. by Town Council 21st Oct. 1785; trans, and adm. 2nd April 1786; holding in conjunction the Professorship of Divinity. Moderator of Assembly 17th May 1792. In the year following he de- clined appointment as one of His Majesty's Chaplains in Ordinary. Died 21st April 1809. He marr. 14th April 1779, Hon. Mary Shaw Scott (born 5th Aug. 1756, died 9th Oct. 1806), eldest damgh. of William, sixth Lord Napier, by whom he had issue — Andrew, born 6th, died 27th March 1781; William Francis of Barjarg, advocate, born 30th July 1785, died 22nd April 1827 ; John, min. of Swinton, and his father's successor ; Mainie Anne Charlotte, born 28thMay 1783, died 21st Feb. 1790 ; Grizel, born 15th June 1784 (marr. 27th June 1808, George Ross, advocate), died 12th Aug. 1864 ; Henrietta Hope, born 2nd Nov. 1793, died 17th Jan. 1856, unmarr. Publications—Five single Sermons (Edinburgh 1775, and 1803); Advicefrom a Father to a Son first entering the Army (anon., 1776).—[Moncreiffs Fun. Serm. ; Grant's Univ., ii. ; Kay's Portr. ; Edin. Chr. Inst., xxv. ; Carlyle's Autob. ; Playfair's Bar., iii.] ALEXANDER BRUNTON, born at Edinburgh 1772 ; licen. by Presb. of Linlithgow 26th Aug. 1796 ; ord. to Bolton 28th Sept. 1797 ; trans, to New Greyfriars 15th Sept. 1803 ; pres. by Town Council 6th Sept., trans, and adm. 23rd Nov. 1809 ; Professor of Oriental Languages in the Univ. of Edinburgh 19th May 1813, which he held in conjunction ; D.D. (Edin- burgh, 17th Dec. 1814); Moderator of Assembly 22nd May 1823 ; convener of the India Mission Committee 26th May 1834, the duties of which he discharged for thirteen years with the highest satis- faction, when declining years obliged him to retire from public life. He died near Cupar-Angus, 9th Feb. 1854. He marr. 5th Dec. 1798, Mary, born 1st Nov. 1778 (only daugh. of Colonel Thomas Balfour of Elwick, and Mary Ligonier), authoress of Self-Control, Discipline, and an unfinished story, Emmeline,who died in childbed, 19th Dec. 1818. Publications—Extracts from the Books of the Old Testament, with Sketches of Hebrew and Chaldee Grammar (Edinburgh, 1814 ; 3rd ed., 1831) ; Sermons and Lectures (Edinburgh, 1818) ; Out- lines of Persian Grammar, with Extracts (Edinburgh, 1822) ; Memoir of Mrs Brunton (in Emmeline, 1819) ; a Sermon preached on the Death of Dr Inglis (Edinburgh, 1834); Outlines of a Speech for the Com- mission of Assembly (Edinburgh, 1843) ; Forms for Public Worship in the Church of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1848).—[Ander- son's Sketches, Kay's Portr., Acts of Ass. ; Blacktvood's Magazine, v., 183 ; Diet. Nat. Biog.] MAXWELLNICHOLSON, D.D. ; trans. from Pencaitland 24th Aug 1854 ; became sole min. in 1866 ; trans, to St Stephen's (assistant and successor) 11th June 1867. JAMES MACGREGOR, D.D. ; trans, from Tron Parish, Glasgow, 9th Jan. 1868 ; trans, to St Cuthbert's, Edin- burgh, 2nd Nov. 1873.