a Scotch clergyman, born at Galloway in September, 1790, was licensed to preach in 1819, presented to the living at Methyen in 1824, and ordained; was transferred to the Old Church, Edinburgh, in 1841, and died Jan. 11, 1857, aged sixty-six years. He was a man of clear and vigorous intellect; his sermons were models of condensed thought and expression. :For several years he managed the business of the General Assembly's Colonial Committee. See Fasti. Eccles. Scoticance, ii, 652. a Scotch clergyman, was licensed to preach. in 1832, presented by the king to the living at Lethendy in 1835, and after much objection ordained the legal difficulties still continued, a libel was preferred against him for drunkenness, his license was taken from him in 1846, and he died at Glasgow in July, 1859, aged fifty-two years. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticance, ii, 805, 806.