236 WHITBURN [PKESB. OF
1780, anon.); Lectures on Belles-Lettres
and Logic, 2 vols. (London, 1856).
17*79
JAMES SOMERVILLE, pres. l>y Sir
William Augustus Cunninghanie,
and adm. 18th Nov. 1779 ; trans.
to Stirling, Second Charge, 8th Oct.
1789.— [Sermons, Steven's Scottish Ch.
Rotterd.]
JAMES RHIND, licen. by Presb. of
1790 Dunbar 4th Oct. 1786; pres. by Sir
William A. Cunninghanie, and ord.
9th Sept. 1790; died 26th Aug. 1808. He
marr. 1st Nov. 1793, Helen Burn, who died
25th June 1847, and had issue—Janet, born
10th Sept. 1794 (marr. 1st Nov. 1825, John
Sinclair Cunningham, manager, Commercial
Bank of Scotland) ; Susan, born 4th March
1796 ; Robert Hunter, born 13th Sept. 1797
;
William and Elizabeth, born 16th Oct.
1799; John, born 8th May 1801, died 26th
June 1803; Jane, born 12th Jan. 1804;
John, born 4th Sept. 1805 ; Agnes, born
8th Oct. 1807.
JAMES WATSON, born Spynie; edu-
1809 cated at King's College, Aberdeen
;
M.A. (1774) ; schoolmaster of Mort-
lach, 1773-85 ; licen. by Presb. of Strath-
bogie 2nd Dec. 1778 ; having the prospect
of a settlement in England, he was ord. by
the same Presb. 16th Nov. 1785; adm. to
South Ronaldshay 8th April 1786 ; pres.
by Thomas Gordon, trans, and adm. 13th
July 1809; died at Edinburgh, 28th May
1823, while attending the General Assembly,
in which he had spoken that day. Publica-
tion
—
Sermon after the Death of the Hon.
William Baillie of Polhemmet (Edinburgh,
1816).
1824
GRAHAM MITCHELL, son of Alex.
M., examiner of Excise, Edinburgh ;
educated at the High School and
Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (19th April
1822) ; licen. by Presb. of Haddington
1st July following ; assistant accountant
in the General Excise Office from 8th
Jan. 1813 till his ordination; pres. by
Sir William Baillie of Polkemmet, Bart.,
in Oct. 1823 ; ord. 15th April 1824 ; LL.D.
(Glasgow, 17th April 1848) ; died 25th Sept.
1869. He marr. 8th April 1828, Catherine
(died 12th June 1864), daugh. of the Rev.
John Webster, of St Peter's Chapel, Edin-
burgh, and had issue—Graham Alexander,
born 9th April 1832 ; William James, born
14th April 1834. Publications—The Young
Man's Guide against Infidelity (Edinburgh,
1848); Account of the Parish (New Stat.
Ace, ii.).—[Steven's High School, etc.]
JOHN WATT, MA.; pres. by Sir
1869 ^iltiam Baillie, Bart., 25th Sept.
1869 ; ord. (assistant and successor)
19th Dec. 1869; trans, to Anderston,
Glasgow, 30th Dec. 1875.
JOHNALEXANDERIRELAND ; ord.
1876 11th May 1876 ; trans, to Gartsherrie
27th Aug. 1891.
JAMES CRAIG, born 1st July 1863;
1892 educated at Glasgow Univ. ; M.A.
(1885), B.D. (1888); ord. 10th Feb.
1892; res. 10th Feb. 1898, to go to South
Africa, where he was adm. min. at Bloem-
fontein.
JAMES LITTLE BUCHANAN, born
1898 Ireland, 26th Nov. 1872, son of Rev.
A. C. B. ; educated at Royal Univ.
of Ireland and Edinburgh Univ. ; B.D.
(1897), LL.B. (1901); licen. by Presb. of
Edinburgh May 1897 ; ord. 19th July 1898 ;
res. 1st Oct. 1909 ; took orders in the
Church of England ; assistant priest of St
Gabriel's, London, 1913. Marr. 18th Aug.
1898, Jessie, daugh. of James Bristow
Young, and has issue—Angus Morogh
;
Brian Urquhart ; Sheena Doreen ; Matilda
Grace. Publication— The Christ World
(London, 1913).
THOMAS OGILVY DUNCAN, M.A.
;
1910 trans. from Kintore, and adm. 10th
March 1910 ; trans, to Athelstane-
ford 16th May 1912.
ROBERT BRUCE MACKINNON,
1912 k°rn Glasgow, 18th Sept. 1878,
eldest son of Robert Alexander M.,
schoolmaster, Loanhead ; educated at
Lasswade School and Univ. of Edinburgh
;
M.A. (1902), B.D. (1905); licen. by Presb.