LINLITHGOW] BATHGATE—BO'NESS 195 JOSEPHMILNE, born Stonehaven, 10th 1867 ^ov- 1841, son of James M. and Ann Wylie; educated at Fetteresso School, and Marischal College, Aberdeen ; MA. (1858); licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen 12th May 1863 ; assistant at Linlithgow, and St Mungo's, Glasgow ; pres. by John Alexander, Earl of Hopetoun, 10th June 1867; ord. 24th Sept. 1867; died 10th Dec. 1871. Marr. 26th April 1870, Mary Lushington, daugh. of John Burns, and had issue—Elizabeth Shirley Burns, born 22nd March 1871 (marr. (1) Lieut.-Colonel Hoile, M.D., 17th Lancers ; (2) Frank Ford, M.B., Wimbledon). WILLIAM BENNIE, born Glasgow, 1872 13th April 1835, son of John B. and Janet Finlay ; educated at Glasgow Univ. ; sometime headmaster of St Enoch's Parish School, Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow ; ord. to Kelvinhaugh Chapel 11th May 1865 ; pres. by John Alexander, Earl of Hopetoun ; trans, and adm. 5th July 1872 ; died 31st Dec. 1894. Marr. 28th June 1870, Catherine Craig, and had issue—John ; James Craig, died 1874 ; Jessie Smith ; William, died 1878 ; Catherine ; David Finlay ; Isabella ; Octavia ; Elizabeth. 1895 DAVID GRAHAM, ord. 11th July 1895 ; trans, to Inverbrothock 9th Feb. 1898. WILLIAM LAURIE WEBSTER, born Edinburgh, 9th April 1873, son of William Heron W. ; educated at Edinburgh Univ.; M.A. (1895); licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 11th May 1898 ; ord. 30th Aug. 1898. Marr. 29th March 1899, Elizabeth Carr, daugh. of Joseph Wood, and has issue—Janetta Eleanor; Laura Wilhelmina ; William Heron, died in in- fancy. Publications — The Greatest Ques- tion of Evolution (Bathgate, 1903). BLACKBRAES (Q.S.). [Disjoined from Muiravonside, and erected into a parish quoad sacra by decreet of Court of Teinds, 14th July 1890. Church built in 1866.] WILLIAM SMITH, born Glasgow, 22nd 1890 ^u^ I850) son of Andrew S. and Anne Calderwood ; licen. by Presb. of Glasgow 1883 ; ord. to Blackbraes Chapel-of-Ease 1884. Marr. 11th April 1876, Helen Anderson, daugh. of George Hume, Glasgow, and has issue—Elizabeth M'Queen (marr. William Simpson, M.A., min. of Fortrose) ; Andrew, M.A., born 1879; William, born 1885. BORROWSTOUNNESS, or BO'NESS. [The parish was erected by Parliament, 9th March 1649, and was formerly called Kinneil.] JOHN WAUGH, a native of Lanark ; 1648 M.A. (Edinburgh, 17th April 1639) ; ord. 27th Nov. 1648. He opposed the Protesting brethren, and at their Presb., in name of his own (20th Oct. 1652), pro- tested against the ordination of John Primrose, at Queensferry, summoning them to compear before the Synod in Nov. ; im- prisoned in 1654 for naming King Charles II. " in his prayers ; ' ; dem. his charge 19th Sept. 1670, and went to Ireland with his family; died in Edinburgh, March 1674, aged about 55. He marr. 1652, Christian, fourth daugh. of George, first Lord Forrester of Corstorphine, widow of James Hamilton of Grange. — [Edin. Reg. {Bur.) ; Baillie's Lett., iii. ; Wodrow's Hist., Linlithgow Burgh Reel] ROBERT HUNTER, M.A. (Edinburgh, July 1643 ; ord. to Corstorphine 11th April 1655 ; deprived 1662 ; ind. at Dunning 1669 ; ind. in this charge 3rd Sept. 1672. Having petitioned the Council for the stipend of Dunning, 1671 and 1672, the Lords ordered the same to be paid ; died April 1676. He marr. Margaret, daugh. of William Hunter of Braidwood- shiel, Lauderdale (G. R. Lnhib., 29th Sept. 1674), and had issue—James, who died April 1672.— [Brown's Hist, of Indidg., Tonibst., Wodrow's Hist.]