4 COLINTON [PRESB. OF KOBERT FISHER, born 1716, son of Francis F., Cochram, Cumberland ; 1753 M.A. (Glasgow 1739); licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 27th Oct. 1742 ; ord. to Lauder 22nd Sept. 1747 ; pres. by James, Earl of Lauderdale, 13th July 1752; trans, and adm. 3rd March 1753; died 8th April 1782. He marr. 29th March 1763, Ann (died 24th Aug. 1774, aged 39), third daugh. of Sir John Jardine of Applegarth, Bart. Their only child, Jane Charteris, born 21st Jan. 1770 (marr. John Stewart, of the Trustees' Office, Edinburgh). — [Presb. Reg., Tombst., Murray's Biog. Ann. ; New Stat. Ace, i.] JOHN WALKER, born 1731, son of 1783 J°nn W-> rector of the Grammar School of the Canongate, Edinburgh, and Eupham Morison ; educated by his father, and at Univ. of Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb. of Kirkcudbright 3rd April 1754 ; ord. to Glencorse 13th Sept. 1758 ; trans, to Moffat 8th June 1762. In 1764 he was appointed by the General Assembly to make a survey of the Hebrides, being at the same time commissioned to make a report to the Society for the Pro- pagation of Christian Knowledge. He travelled 3000 miles in seven months. His report, found among his papers after his death, was printed by his friend Charles Stewart. M.D. (Glasgow 1765), D.D. (Edin- burgh 1765); app. Professor of Natural History, Univ. of Edinburgh, 15th June 1779, retaining also his post as min. of M. The Presb. of Lochmabenfound the holding of both offices to be incompatible, but the Synod reversed the finding. On 13th Feb. 1783 he was adm. to this charge ; Moderator of Assembly 20th May 1790 ; died 31st Dec. 1803. During the last years of his life he was blind. He marr. 24th Nov. 1789, Jane Wallace (died 4th May 1827), eldest daugh. of Andrew Wauchope of Niddrie. Publica- tions— Two single Sermons (Edinburgh, 1756, 1791) ; Classes Fossilium, sive Char- acteres naturales et Chymici classium et ordinum in systemate minerali, cum nomibus Genericis adscriptis (Edinburgh, 1787) ; Institutes of Natural History (Edinburgh, 1792) ; Memorial concerning the Present Scarcity of Grain (Edinburgh, 1801); An Economical History of the Hebrides ami Highlands of Scotland, 2 vols. (Edinburgh, 1808 ; reissued in London, 1812) ; Essays on Natural History and Rural Economy (Edinburgh, 1808; London, 1812) ; "Report to the Genera] Assembly, 1772, concerning the State of the Highlands and Islands ; ' (Scots Mag., xxxiv.) ; " Experiments on the Motion of the Sap in Trees " (Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin.); many papers in Trans, of the Highland Soc. ; Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace, xix.).—[Grant's Univ., ii. ; Jardine's Nat. Lib., xxvi. ; Murray's Biog. Ann. ; New Stat. Ace, i. ; Diet. Nat. Biog.] 1804 JOHN FLEMING, born 1750, son of James F. of Craigs, and great- grandson of Edward Marshall of Keymuir, Muiravonside, who suffered martyrdom in 1685 ; educated at Bathgate School and Univ. of Edinburgh ; licen. by Presb. of Linlithgow 23rd Feb. 1785; ord. to Carrington 7th May 1790; pres. by James, Earl of Lauderdale ; trans, and adm. 22nd Nov. 1804; died un- married, 23rd Jan. 1823. In early life he succeeded to his father's property, and devoted himself with much success to agriculture. He was, for a time, factor to Neil, Earl of Rosebery, and even after being called to the ministry, was frequently em- ployed as a valuator of landed estates. He bequeathed his library to the parish, after thirty of his most intimate friends had each selected a book as a token of re- membrance. He left £240 for educating " a certain number of free scholars in the parochial school," and the remainder of his fortune he conveyed to trustees for behoof of his nearest relatives, but in the event of their leaving no issue, for establish- ing professorships of Political Economy in the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow. Publication—Account of Primrose or Car- rington (Sinclair's Stat. Ace, xiv.). He is said to have been offered a hundred pounds for the right of publishing the sermon preached at the admission of John Kellock to Crichton, but it never appeared in print. See Memoir by Archibald Con-