Alexander Whyte, senior minister of St. George’s Free Church, Edinburgh, was born at Kirriemuir (Thrums), Scotland, in 1837. He was educated at Aberdeen University (M. A., 1862), and at New College, Edinburgh (1862-66), and after being assistant minister of Free St. John’s, Glasgow, from 1866 to 1870, became at first assistant minister, and later (1873) minister, of Free St. George’s, Edinburgh, a position which he still retains, having had there an uninterrupted success. He is the author of a number of biographies, one of these being “An Appreciation of Newman.â€