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A map of 1877, showing the New North, Old, and High divisions prior to the Chambers restoration


Background edit

The building had been a collegiate church since 1467, served by a group of clergy under control of the local town council. Little is known of the names of these clergy, but the format made for a smooth transition into the parish church system of the post-Reformation.

Various reconstructions also defined the building: the older sections to the east were known as the Old Kirk or High Kirk; the western section was known as the New Kirk. Internal walls began to be used from the Reformation, the first being a division of the westmost section to create an extension to the Tolbooth Church.

The first subdivision affecting the running and administration of the church was in 1581 when the choir was split and called the East Kirk. Only from this point did the different parishes represented within the main church structure have their own specific minister.

Although other churches and chapels existed in Edinburgh (most notably Trinity College Kirk), these had little parochial function pre-Reformation.

The church spent much of its time quartered, both physically and functionally: Edinburgh being split into four parishes. This was alleviated by allocating Trinity College Church to serve the north-east parish in 1584 and the building of Greyfriars Church in 1630 which divested the church of its south-west parish. The remaining two parishes were named after two features on the adjacent High Street: Tolbooth to the west; Tron to the east.

The blending and farming out of parish roles makes explanation of the sequence of ministers slightly complicated at certain periods and is only simplified in 1877 when the church was both restored and unified as a single parish.

Pre-Reformation edit

  • John Knox
  • John Willock (1559) originally a Franciscan monk from Ayr who had joined the Reform group in 1541. Willock performed the first Holy Communion in accordance with the revised protocols of the Reformation

Post-Reformation (to 1625) edit

Second Charge edit

1625 to 1877 edit

The format in this period was a church split into up to four parishes, each with its own minister, plus a fifth senior minister, acting as "Dean".

Second Charge edit

SE Parish (Old Kirk) edit

Second Charge edit

From 1860 changes in the tax system removed the funding for the Old Kirk as a paid separate parish but it continued as a quoad sacra parish (still within St Giles) under the ministry of David Arnot of the adjacent High Kirk. In 1869 the congregation left St Giles and moved to a hall on Blackfriars Street to the east. In 1874 the town council approved a new structure for the quoad sacra congregation at the foot of St John Street off the Canongate. The building was not completed until 1882. It later became known as the Anderson Memorial Church after its first minister James Anderson.

Tolbooth Parish edit

In 1828 the parish left St Giles to the purpose built Tolbooth Church on Castlehill.

Second Charge edit

  • John Oswald 1643 to 1648
  • Alexander Malcolm 1663 to 1667
  • William Gardyne 1668 to 1686 moved to first charge (see above)
  • Thomas Wilkie 1687 to 1691
  • James Webster 1693 to 1720
  • William Gusthart 1721 to 1764 Dean of the Chapel Royal and Chaplain in Ordinary to the King
  • David Plenderleath 1765 to 1779
  • John Kemp 1779 to 1805
  • John Campbell 1805 to 1828, Moderator in 1818

West St Giles (New North) edit

Originally meeting in a hall on the Lawnmarket in 1692 the congregation was officially recognised as a parish in 1698 and moved into St Giles in December 1699. As this portion of the church had linked to the adjacent Tolbooth Prison and had infamously been used to imprison Sir John Gordon, 1st Baronet, of Haddo prior to his execution, the section was known as "Haddo's Hold". From its size it was also fodly called the Little Kirk. From 1829 to 1835 the congregation met in the Methodist Chapel on Nicholson Square and from 1835 to 1843 at Brighton Street Chapel before returning to St Giles. In 1880 the congregation left St Giles to a new church on the Meadows funded by Dr William Chambers.

  • Samuel Halliday 1695 to 1699
  • George Andrews 1699 to 1705
  • John Flint 1710 to 1730
  • James Smith 1730 to 1732 became Professor of Divinity at Edinburgh University
  • John Gowdie 1732 to 1733 Moderator in 1733 and Principal of Edinburgh University
  • James Smith 1733 to 1736 deciding he could preach and run the university
  • Robert Wallace 1738 to 1771
  • William Gloag 1772 to 1802
  • John Thomson 1802 to 1814 translated to New Greyfriars
  • Robert Nisbet DD 1843 to 1874
  • Alexander Williamson 1875 to 1911
  • John MacGilchrist 1911 to 1913
  • John Malcolm Munro 1913 to ?

Collegiate Church edit

(The collegiate minister was operational from 1703 to 1843) Confusingly the parish is also sometimes called the New North Church

1877 onwards edit

The church was physically unified into a single space in 1877.

6 edit

 
Stained glass of Adam Black Richardson in Scottish National Portrait Gallery

Adam Black Richardson (1851–1909) was a Scottish scholar and expert in numismatics. He oversaw the Scottish National Coin Collection held at the National Museum of Antiquities and contributed his personal collection to the national collection.

Life edit

He was born on 14 July 1851 the son of William Chambers Richardson (1803-1868) and his wife Allison Ponton Black (1820-1888), daughter of Adam Black, publisher and Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1856 to 1865.

On the creation of the Scottish Museum of Antiquities (housed in the eastern half of what is now the Scottish National Portrait Gallery) in 1889 he was the first Curator of Coins. The public display, in large part, comprised his own collection in combination with that of Robert Cochran-Patrick.

He died in Edinburgh on 7 November 1909.

Family edit

In 1893 he married Alice Maud Duckworth.

Publications edit

  • Scottish Coins (1901)

Memorials edit

Richardson appears as a donor in the memorial window on the south stair of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery on Queen Street, Edinburgh.

RX edit

Carbet Castle was an extravagant mansion near Dundee created by one of the town's "jute barons".

History edit

The Grimond family were a well-established family of Dundee flax-spinners. By 1793 the family owned and operated both Lornty Mill and Oakbank Mill in Blairgowrie. They founded the company of J & D A Grimond in Dundee as cloth merchants in 1840 and soon after also began jute weaving.[1]

In the 1860s Joseph Grimond owned and operated the Bowbridge Works in Dundee and the jute barons were competing with each other to created the biggest and most impressive house. He had bought Kerbat House on Camphill Road in 1861 and commissioned architect Thomas Saunders Robertson to begin its huge expansion.[2] He took the house's original name and scrambled it to create Carbet Castle. All principal rooms had an impressive view over the Firth of Tay.[3]

Ceilings were painted by the French decorator Charles Frechou in 1871.

Around 1875 Grimond bought Kinnettles Castle as a country house over and above Carbet as his town house.

The building was photographed by Alexander Wilson around 1900.[4]

Parts of the building were demolished in 1939.[5] The final elements of the building (mainly the original west section) were demolished in 1984.

Grimond was grandfather of the politician Jo Grimond who would have certainly known Carbet Castle in his youth.

XX edit

James (Jim) Wyness CBE (1933–2018) was a Scottish teacher who served as Lord Provost of Aberdeen in the late 20th century.

Life edit

He was born in the Broomhill district of Aberdeen in 1933 and attended Broomhill Primary School then Ruthrieston Secondary School. He was apprenticed as a shipyard electrician in 1947. He joined the rade union in 1948 and became a member of the Labour Party in 1952.

His career in the shipyards was abruptly curtailed when he fell from a mast to his severe injury. After recovery he decided to begin a new career path and went to Aberdeen University to study History and Politics. After graduating he bacame a teacher at Hazlehead Academy.

In 1980 he was successfully elected as a Labour councillor serving the Tillydrone ward within Grampian Regional Council. He was elected Lord Provost in 1992 and served for four years. His most noteworthy event while provost was greeting Mikhail Gorbachov in 1993 and granting him the Freedom of the City.[6]

He was awarded a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the New Year's Honours List 1994/5.[7] He retired from teaching later that year and retired from the council in 1996.

A two minute silence was held at the meeting of Aberdeen City Council on 2 July 2018.[8]

Family edit

Not known

Artistic Recognition edit

He was portrayed in 1996 in his ceremonial robes by Sandy Fraser.[9]


YY edit

Daniel Furzer (1753–1680) was a British shipbuilder with a namesake son and grandson. It is very hard to distinguish the three from one another. The grandson rose to be Surveyor of the Navy.

Life edit

Daniel Furzer the elder (d.1680) was a private shipbuilder at Conpill near Bristol and acted as both a timber purveyor for the Royal Navy plus took individual contracts for ship.


He served as Surveyor of the Navy from 1699 to 1714 and was replaced in 1715 by Jacob Ackworth.


In 1703 he received a ring at the funeral of Samuel Pepys but his connection to Pepys is unclear.

Family edit

Daniel Furzer II was married to Anne Pett.

ZZ edit

Ardmillan Castle is a ruinous Scottish castle dating from the late 16th century.

It lies on the A77 on the edge of the Firth of Clyde south of Girvan.

History edit

The original structure was built in the late 16th century on a low mound. It was originally a rectangular tower with circular towers on the corners. The two northern towers have been removed.[10]

It was built and owned by the Kennedys of Bargany until 1658, it then passing through marriage to the Crawfords of Baidland. By 1688 it had a motte (wide ditch) built on all sides.[11]

In the 18th century a classical wing and new formal front was added and it took on more of the appearance of a house rather than a fortification.[12]

By 1892 it had an enclosed courtyard built at its base.[13]

It suffered in a fire in the early 20th century and again in 1973 leaving the property ruinous. The grounds have been used as a caravan park since 1980.[14]

Geoff edit

James Elphinston(e), Lord Coupar (1676–1730) was a Scottish judge and Senator of the College of Justice. He also held the title of 5th Lord Balmerino.

Life edit

He was born on 24 November 1675 the son of John Elphinstone, 4th Lord Balmerino and his wife, Christiana Montgomerie. James studied law and passed the Scottish bar as an advocate in 1703.


On 5 June 1714 he was created a Senator of the College of Justice in place of John Murray, Lord Bowhill.[15]

He died in Leith on 5 January 1746.

Family edit

In 1718 he married Elizabeth Carnegie (d.1767), daughter of David Carnegie, 4th Earl of Northesk. They had no children.


Thomas edit

AFS edit

 
Dumbarton Riverside Parish Church

John Brash (c.1775–1848) was a Scottish architect and builder mainly operating in the Glasgow area.

Life edit

 
A section of Blythswood Square

He was the son of a farmer who lived near New Kilpatrick.

He first appears as an architect in Glasgow around 1800. In 1819 James Salmon (architect, born 1805) was apprenticed under Brash in a basement office in the Trongate district.[16]

For most of his working life he lived and worked at the Madeira Buildings on Argyll Street in Glasgow. He sold this property in 1838 and then moved to Govan.

He spent his final years with his widowed sister Margaret Cochran, in Chapel Lane in Falkirk and died there in 1848. Although Brash married twice, both predeceased him, and they had no children. He left his monies partly to his sister and partly to found the John Brash Trust

Known works edit

Family edit

Not known


JG edit

George Sinclair, Lord Woodhall also known as George Sinclair of Castlehill (c.1700–1764) was a Scottish judge and Senator of the College of Justice.

Life edit

He was the son of Sir John Sinclair, 4th Baronet of Longformacus, an estate in East Lothian, east of Edinburgh, and his wife and cousin, Martha Lockhart-Sinclair. He trained in law and became an advocate around 1725, later also serving as Sheriff of Lanark from 1747.[19] His ancestor was one of the many Scottish landowners who purchased a Nova Scotia baronetcy in 1624 as part of a state exercise to raise funds in exchange for titles.[20]

On the death of George's grandfather in 1727, his father became a baronet.[21]

He had a home and legal practise on Castlehill in Edinburgh at the top of the Royal Mile close to Scotland's main law courts.[22]

In February 1751 he was elected a Senator of the College of Justice in place of the late James Grahame, Lord Easdale.[23]

At some point in the mid-18th century he rented Woodhall House south-west of Edinburgh. Through his mother he inherited the huge estates of Lockhart (now the modern area known as Craiglockhart), this included the 15th century Craiglockhart Castle.[24]

In 1761 he inherited the estate of Murkle on the north Scottish coast from his cousin and friend Alexander Sinclair, 9th Earl of Caithness. George Sinclair died on 5 May 1764. He died immensely rich, but unmarried and childless. His father died after him, preventing his ever being a baronet. The baronetcy passed briefly to his paternal uncle, Henry Sinclair (d.1768). In 1766 after a contest to both George's and Alexander's will, the estates passed to a nephew, Sir John Sinclair of Stevenson (d.1789).[25] His position as Senator was filled by Francis Garden, Lord Gardenstone.[26]

The Lockhart estates passed to a nephew, Captain James Lockhart of Castlehill (1736-1808) in 1764 and the same nephew became the baronet in 1768 when Henry Sinclair died.[27]

TT edit

 
Robert Kay by John Kay
 
South Bridge with its various attic alterations

Robert Kay (1740–1818) was an Edinburgh builder and architect. His engineering skills led him to design bridges and several lighthouses.

He was born at Cairnton near Penicuik in 1740 and initially trained as a wright and carpenter. He appears to have moved to Edinburgh around 1760 and supplemented his income by teaching drawing. By 1770 he had established himself as a builder and architect of good repute in the city.

In 1784 he received a major commission from the Town Council and James Hunter Blair to create a new bridge south of North Bridge, spanning the Cowgate to reach Edinburgh's South Side. This project, named South Bridge and still known by that name, was built 1785 to 1788.[28] This complex scheme has only one visible arch (over the Cowgate) and is largely a scheme of shops and flats as seen from South Bridge, but from the Cowgate is a huge block eight storeys in height. The buildings created are now addressed as South Bridge, Hunter Square, Blair Street and Niddry Street.[29]

In 1787 he entered the competition for the design of Charlotte Square but this passed to Robert Adam.[30]

Around 1810 he built Sycamore Bank, a villa on Duddingston Road.[31]

Kay partially invested in the South Bridge project with his own money and with a handsome return on this bought a fine mansion at Wester Duddingston on land bought from Louis Cauvin, where he died on 13 May 1818. He is buried in the secular Old Calton Burial Ground in central Edinburgh.

Family edit

He married Janet Skirving (d. August 1813), a widow who ran a tavern on the Canongate. They had no children and on his death his assets were given 50% to charity and 50% to his wife's niece Mary Musgrove (aka Mrs Hardie). The charitable donations including major contributions to the Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge and the building of the Edinburgh Sessional School on Market Street.[32]

He was caricatured by his distant cousin John Kay around 1810.[33]

AXX edit

 
Sir John Cullen advocate
 
Sir John Connell
 
Abercromby Place in Edinburgh

Sir John Connell (c.1765–1831) was a prominent Scottish legal author and judge, specialising in both church law and naval procedures.

He was born in Glasgow a younger son of Arthur Connell a merchant and his wife Magdalen Wallace.[34] His father served as Lord Provost of Glasgow 1772 to 1774 when John was still young.

He studied Law at Glasgow University and passed the Scottish bar as an advocate around 1785 being created a member of the Faculty of Advocates in 1788.

In 1795 he was created Sheriff Depute of Renfrewshire. In 1805 he took on the additional role as Procurator (legal advisor) to the Church of Scotland.[35]

In 1816 he was appointed Judge of the Court of the Admiralty, a position abolished in 1830. In 1822 he was knighted by King George IV during his visit to Scotland. From 1830 he was the senior member of the Faculty of Admiralty Procurators.[36]

From around 1816 he lived in Edinburgh, residing his final years at 16 Abercromby Place in the Second New Town.[37]

He died suddenly during a visit of his family to his brother-in-law Sir Archibald Campbell, 2nd Baronet at Garscube House north of Glasgow on 13 April 1831.

He married Margaret Campbell, a daughter of Sir Ilay Campbell, Lord President of the Court of Session, and their children included Arthur Connell FRSE.

Publications edit

  • Manses and Glebes of the Parochial Clergy
  • Patronage of Churches (1818)

XX edit

James Milne (c.1778–c.1852) was a Scottish architect, architectural author and inventor of a highly innovative steam-powered stone-hewing machine

Life edit

He was born in central Scotland around 1778. He is first listed as an "architect" living in Edinburgh in 1809, living in a newly built property at 3 James Street at the east end of the fashionable First New Town.[38] In 1815 he moved to larger premises at 9 James Street and in 1825 opened an independent office at Northumberland Place in the Second New Town.

Publications edit

  • The Elements of Architecture (1812)
  • Theory of the Earth (1821)

Family edit

References edit

  1. ^ https://archives.dundee.ac.uk/grimond-family
  2. ^ https://canmore.org.uk/site/175174/dundee-broughty-ferry-camphill-road-carbet-castle
  3. ^ Scotland's Lost Houses by Ian Gow
  4. ^ http://www.leisureandculturedundee.com/photopolis/carbet-castle-dundee
  5. ^ https://canmore.org.uk/site/175174/dundee-broughty-ferry-camphill-road-carbet-castle
  6. ^ Herald (newspaper) 5 September 1993
  7. ^ London Gazette 1 January 1995
  8. ^ Aberdeen Press and Journal 3 July 2018
  9. ^ https://emuseum.aberdeencity.gov.uk/objects/8991/lord-provost-james-wyness
  10. ^ The Castles of Scotland by Martin Coventry ISBN 1-899874-00-3
  11. ^ Castles of the Clans, by Martin Coventry
  12. ^ The Fortified House in Scotland vol.3 by N. Tranter
  13. ^ MacGibbon & Ross, The Castellated and Domestic Architecture of Scotland
  14. ^ https://canmore.org.uk/site/62078/ardmillan-castle
  15. ^ An Historical Account of the Senators of the College of Justice from its Institution by George Brunton and David Haig, published by Thomas Clark 1831
  16. ^ Dictionary of Scottish Architects: Black & Salmon
  17. ^ https://www.pastglasgow.co.uk/1-7-blythswood-square-c1860s/
  18. ^ http://www.clydewaterfront.com/clyde-heritage/dumbarton/dumbarton-riverside-parish-church
  19. ^ https://www.geni.com/people/George-Sinclair-of-Castlehill-Lord-Woodhall/6000000018093472765#:~:text=He%20was%20appointed%20sheriff%20of%20the%20county%20of,estate%20of%20Castlehill%2C%20and%20died%205th%20May%201764.%22
  20. ^ https://sinclairgenealogy.info/sinclair-lockhart-of-stevenson/
  21. ^ Burke's Peerage: Sinclair baronets
  22. ^ Grant's Old and New Edinburgh vol.2
  23. ^ An Historical Account of the Senators of the College of Justice from its Institution by George Brunton and David Haig, published by Thomas Clark 1831
  24. ^ Yje Castles of Scotland by Martin Coventry
  25. ^ https://sinclairgenealogy.info/sinclair-of-stevenson/#:~:text=Martha%20Lockhart%E2%80%99s%20third%20son%2C%20George%20St.%20Clair%20%28d.,heir%20to%20Alexander%20Sinclair%2C%209th%20Earl%20of%20Caithness.
  26. ^ An Historical Account of the Senators of the College of Justice from its Institution by George Brunton and David Haig, published by Thomas Clark 1831
  27. ^ https://sinclairgenealogy.info/sinclair-lockhart-of-stevenson/
  28. ^ Buildings of Scotland: Edinburgh by Gifford, McWilliam and Walker p.188
  29. ^ Buildings of Scotland: Edinburgh by Gifford, McWilliam and Walker p.233/4
  30. ^ Buildings of Scotland: Edinburgh by Gifford, McWilliam and Walker p.293
  31. ^ Buildings of Scotland: Edinburgh by Gifford, McWilliam and Walker p.562
  32. ^ Kay's Originals vol.2 p.379
  33. ^ Kay's Originals vol.2 p.378
  34. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 May 2018. Retrieved 7 May 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  35. ^ ODNB: Sir John Connell
  36. ^ Kay's Originals vol.2 p.442
  37. ^ Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1830
  38. ^ Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1810



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