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Adm. pens. (age 18) at ST JOHN'S, June 24, 1811. 4th s. of Sir Alexander [1st] Bart. (and Elizabeth, dau. and co-heiress of Sir Alexander Bannerman, Bart.). [B. Jan. 31, 1793, at Aberdeen. School, Durham.] ' Matric. Michs. 1811; Scholar, 1811; B.A. 1815; M.A. 1831. Hon. LL.D., Edin., 1860. Ord. deacon (Bath and Wells) Dec. 26, 1816; priest, 1818; C. of Rodden, Somerset, 1816-24. Evening Lecturer at Frome, 1816-24, and C. of Buckland-Dinham, 1817-24. C. of St George's, York Place, Edinburgh, 1824-6. C. of St Paul's, Carrubbers Close, 1826-7. C. of St John's Church, Edinburgh, 1827-30; Pastor there, 1830-72. Dean of Edinburgh, 1846-72. Successfully advocated the removal of the barriers between the Scottish Episcopal Church and the English Church. Married, 1829, Isabella, dau. of Robert Cochrane, of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Associated with Gladstone in the foundation of Trinity College, Glenalmond. Author, Memoir of Dr Chalmers; Christian Doctrine of the Eucharist; Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character; Diversities of Christian Character; Christian Life; Lectures on the Genius of Handel; Pulpit Table Talk; Letter on distinct Reading and Preaching; etc. Died Dec. 27, 1872. Brother of Marmaduke (1814) and the next. (Durham Sch. Reg.; Crockford; Burke, P. and B.; D.N.B.)