a Scotch clergyman, son of the minister of Tron Church, Glasgow, took his degree at the university there in 1727; was licensed to preach in 1731; presented to the living at Neilston in 1732; ordained in 1733, and died 'Sept. 8, 1736, aged thirty-two years.. There was then no more acceptable minister or preacher in the west of Scotland. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticance, ii, 230.