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a Scotch clergyman, took his degree from the University of St. Andrews in 1682, became a helper in the parish of Birsay and Harray, and was transferred to Kirkwall in 1689, being the last minister appointed before Episcopacy was abolished. He was promoted to Stronsay and Eday in 1696, transferred to St. Andrews and Deerness in 1700, and died before January 1719, aged about fifty-seven years. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 3:378, 386, 393, 408.