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FASTI ECCLESIiE SCOTICAN^
SYNODS OF ROSS, SUTHERLAND AND CAITHNESS
GLENELG, ORKNEY AND OF SHETLAND
THE CHURCH IN ENGLAND
IRELAND AND OVERSEAS
EDITORIAL COMMITTEE
The Rev. W. S. Ceockett. D.D., Minister of Tweedsmuir, Convener and
GeneralEditor.
Francis James Grant, W.S., Rothesay Herald and Lyon Clerk, Vice-Convener
(ind Joint-Editor.
The Rev. Professor James Mackinxon, D,D., Ph.D.
Sir James Balfour Paul, K.C.V.O., LL.D.
The Rev. Arthur Pollok Sym, D.D.
GENERAL COMMITTEE
TheVeryRev. David Paul, D.D., LL.D., TheRev.A.J.Campbell,B.A.,Glasgow
Edinburgh The Rev. Alexander A. Duncan, B.D.,
The Rev. Professor Baxter, B.D., St Auchterless
Andrews
The Rev. Professor Mackinnon, DD., TheLoRnegvs.ideRichard Henderson, B.D.,
Ph.D., Edinburgh
The Rev.Thomas Burns,D.D.,Edinburgh The Rev. James F. Leishman, M.A.,
Linton
TheRev.W.W.Coats,D.D.,Brechin TheRev.AngusJ.Macdonald,Killearnan
TheRev.J.T.Cox,D.D.,Dyce TheRev.Alex. M.MacGregoe,Lochryan
TheRev.J.KingHewison,D.D.,Rothesay TheRev.John Muirhead,B.D.,Avendale
The Rev. A. M'Neill Houston, D.D., The Rev. John W. Murray,B.A.(Oxon.),
Auchterderran Manor
TheRev.JosephMitchell,D.D.,Mauchline TheRev.W.H. Porter,Cults,Pitlessie
TheRev.HarrySmith, D.D.,Heriot The Rev. William Stephen, B.D., Inver-
TheRev.Arthur P.Sym,D.D.,Lilliesleaf keithing
TheRev.J.R.Aitken,M.A.,Edinburgh C.E.W.Macpherson,C.A.,Edinburgh
TheRev.JamesW.Blake,M.A.,Temple SirJamesBalfourPaul,K.C.V.O.,LL.D.,
TheRev.JohnBurleigh,Ednam Edinburgh
TheRev.AndrewBurns,Fenwick ThomasReid,M.A.,Lanark
TheRev.J.A.Cameron,B.D.,Legerwood J. H, Stevenson, M.B.E.,K.C.,Edinburgh
FASTI ECCLESIiE
SCOTICANiE
THE SUCCESSION OF MINISTERS IN
THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND FROM
THE REFORMATION
BY
HEW
SCOTT, D.D.
NEW EDITION
Revisedandcontimiedto thePresent Timetmderthe Superintendetice
ofa Committee appointed by the General Assembly
VOLUME
VII
SYNODS OF ROSS, SUTHERLAND AND CAITHNESS
GLENELG, ORKNEY AND OF SHETLAND
THE CHURCH IN ENGLAND
IRELAND AND OVERSEAS
OLIVER AND BOYD
EDINBURGH: TWEEDDALE COURT
1928
I'RINTKI) INGUKATBnlTAIN BY
OLIVKKANDBOYD.KDINBUROH
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PREFATORY NOTE
With the present Volume the work of preparing a new edition of
Fasti Ecclesice Scoticanoe comes to a completion. The genesis of the
undertaking may be recalled. An Overture was presented to the
General Assembly in the following terms:
"Whereas the publication known as Dr Hew Scott's Fasti Ecclesice
ScoticanoB contains valuable information relative to the ministers of
the Church from an early period; whereas it is desirable to continue a
record of the succession of ministers in the various parishes since the
date of that publication; and whereas this can be most conveniently
carried out by a Committee representing the Church: It is humbly
Overtured by the undersigned Members of the House to the Venerable
the General Assembly to appoint a Committee to collect material for
the continuance ofthe record up tothe present date; or to do otherwise
asthe Assembly may see fit."
Of eight signatories it may be stated that three only survive, while
of ten members who constituted the Editorial Committee of 1914,
four only remain.
Duringthe earlier stages ofconference astothe precisearrangement
of the work, a decision was arrived at which entirely altered its
original design of merely continuing Dr Hew Scott's Fasti from 1839
tothepresent time. That decision involved a complete revision of all
Dr Scott's Volumes, and tothis extended scheme the General Assembly
gave cordial approval. The seven Volumes now issued, therefore,
have been compiled and re-written following a careful perusal, not
only of the documents (chiefly Presbytery Registers) available to
Dr Scott, but also of numerous others to which he had no access, and
which, indeed, were unknown to him, many of them having been
discovered within recentyears. In addition, the Editors have had the
advantage of reading a very large number of Local, Family and
General Histories published since Dr Scott's day. Full use has been
made of the important Separate Registers belonging to the different
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Presbyteries: thus mostof what ispurely domestic information inthe
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shape of family details, etc. has been derived from official sources.
Further, much genealogical data has come from the parochial and
otherdocuments preserved in H.M. General Register House, Edinburgh,
to which the officials thereof gave courteous and ready access. An
extensive corresjjondence with surviving relatives and friends of
ministers has also ensured completeness and correctness as far as
possible, for the records here brought together.
These Volumes, possible only through much arduous research, have
been undertaken by the Editorsas a labour of love, and the work has
been published without expenseto the Church. The Editors think it
right to say that the publishers, Messrs Oliver & Boyd, have borne the
brunt of the printing costs which have been considerable, aided by
small bonuses provided by friends ofthe Church.
Having now reached the end of their long and difficult task, the
Editors rejoice to be able to place before the Church and the public
a compilation of much more than ecclesiastical importance, and of
which critics have declared that it is a work necessary for a true
elucidation ofthe national spirit and ofthe national history.
The present Volume (in which Dr Scott's original work endsatpage
820) contains material assembled from many quarters and from many
lands. Never before has the story of the Church of Scotland in
England, Ireland, on the Continent of Europe, in the British Colonies,
and in America, been told in biographical detail, and the notices of
Indian Chaplains, Foreign and Jewish Missionaries are here given for
the first time. The biographies of the Episcopal period, as also those
pertaining to the Scottish Universities, and the carefully-collated list
of Moderators, have been added in order to make this Fasti of the
Church a full record of all who have served her in the ministryfrom
the Reformation tothe present year. The Volume now issued has been
brought upto date.
Many helpers have assisted in tlie prejDaration of this Volume. Of
thesethe Committeerecordtheirthankstothe following:
The various Clerks of Presbyteries; Rev. Angus Macdonald,
minister of Killearnan; Rev. Donald Beaton, minister of Free
Presbyterian Church, Wick Rev. Donald Mackiunon, minister of
;
Free Church, Portree; Rev. Professor J. H. Baxter and the late
James Maitland Anderson, LL.D., St Andrews; The late Very Rev.
James Nicoll Ogilvie, D.D.; Rev. John M. Russell, D.D., Cape Town;
Rev. John Burgess, DD., Clerk of New South Wales General
