a Scotch Congregational minister, was born at Paisley, November 15, 1805. He was educated at the University of Glasgow, and at the Divinity Hall of the United Secession Church; was licensed to preach in 1830, and ordained pastor of the Chalmers Street Church, Dunfermline, in 1833. He resigned in 1843; joined the Congregationalists in 1845, and became pastor at Cleckheaton in 1852; retired to Leeds in 1869, and continued to reside there until his death, December 17, 1881. See (Lond.) Cong. Year-book, 1883, page 274.