BIGGAR] COULTER 247 [Baillie] Dundas of Lamington, and adra. 23rd Oct. 1750; died 13th June 1771. He marr. 30th Sept. 1747, Anne (died 11th Oct. 1797), daugh. of William Bertram of Nisbet and Kersewell, and Cecilia Kennedy of Auchtifardle, and had issue—Cecilia, born 30th Sept. 1748 ; Anne, born 9th June 1750; Helenore, born 7th Jan. 1752, died 1st May 1767; Euphemia, born 11th Sept. 1755; William, a student, born 16th Sept. 1756, died 11th June 1771; Mainie, born 5th Jan. 1759; Archibald, born 11th Feb. 1761, died 9th June 1761 ; John of Coulter- mains, born 6th Dec. 1762.—[Browns of Coidtermains, Hunter's Biggar.] WILLIAM LOCKHART, pres. by Dame 1772 Elizabeth [Baillie] Ross of Laming- ton and Balnagown ; ord. 2nd Sept. 1772 ; trans, to St Andrew's, Glasgow, 18th Nov. 1784. WILLIAM STRACHAN, born 1748; 17 5 licen. by Presb. of Lanark 13th May 1778 ; pres. by Sir John Lockhart Ross of Balnagown, Bart., and ord. 22nd Sept. 1785 ; died 28th July 1826. He marr. Elizabeth Howison, who died 5th Aug. 1823, and had issue—Alexander, of London, born 22nd July 1778 ; William, born 12th March 1781, died 24th Nov. 1801 ; James, min. of Cavers ; John, surgeon, Barbados, born 1st Dec. 1784; Margaret, born 2nd July 1786; Robert, of London, born 26th April 1788 ; George, lieut. in the Rifle Corps, born 31st March 1790. Publication —Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace, vi., xxi.). JAMES PROUDFOOT, born Skirling, 20th April 1796, son of Alexander P. and Janet Glover ; schoolmaster of Skirling 1817 ; educated at Univ. of Edin- burgh ; licen. by Presb. of Biggar 7th Dec. 1824 ; pres. by John Dickson of Hartree, and adm. 25th April 1827. Joined the Free Church ; min. of Coulter Free Church 1843 ; died at Lower Norwood, London, 15th Nov. 1876. He marr. 16th Dec. 1828, Janet (died 14th Aug. 1866, aged 67), daugh. of John Gibson, farmer, Symington Mains, and had issue— Mary Dickson, born 16th Oct. 1829, died at Mildura, Victoria, 30th Oct. 1900; Alexander, a clergyman, born 5th Jan. 1831, died at Rockhampton, Australia, 11th April 1873; Jane, born 6th Aug. 1832, died 12th Jan. 1861 ; John Gibson, born 10th March 1834 ; Janet, born 6th Sept. 1835, died 10th May 1858; George, born 31st March 1837, died at Camperdown, Australia, 25th Aug. 1864 ; Elizabeth, born 6th May 1838, died at Mildura, Victoria, 17th Sept. 1901 ; James, born 24th July 1842 ; died 30th May 1880. Publications— Verses on the Highland Soldiers who Fell at Quatre Bras and Waterloo; Occasional Poems (privately printed, 1863) ; Account of the Parish {New Stat. Ace, vi.). 1843 JAMES GRANT RIACH, born Aber- deen, 9th June 1819, son of John R. and Mary Dawson ; educated at Grammar School, Aberdeen, Marischal Col- legeand Univ.; M.A. (1836) ; licen.by Presb. of Garioch 18th July 1842 ; schoolmaster of Monymusk 1841-3 ; ord. 22nd Sept. 1843 ; died 16th Sept. 1862. He marr. 1st Nov. 1859, Elizabeth Scott, daugh. of John Roger, merchant, Greenock, and had issue —John James, merchant, America, born 8th Oct. 1860; Agnes Bain, born 27th March 1862. (His widow marr. again 12th Aug. 1869.) 1863 JOHN ANDERSON, born Muckkart, 10th May 1821, son of John A. and Cecilia Fraser ; educated at Muck- hart, Dollar, and Edinburgh Univ. ; M.A. (1842); licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh May 1846; ord. 12th Oct. 1846 as missionary to Calcutta ; adm. to Dalkeith (West) 9th Jan. 1857 ; trans, and adm. 27th March 1863; res. 14th Dec. 1907; Father of the Church of Scotland (1914). Marr. 18th March 1851, Ann Petrie, missionary at Calcutta (died 8th July 1884), daugh. of David Savile, min. of New Street Chapel, Edinburgh. (She was the only foreign missionary of the Church of Scotland who did not join the Free Church in 1843.)