Carmichael, William (1), Am

Carmichael, William (1), A.M.

a Scotch clergyman, took his degree at the Edinburgh University in 1659; became schoolmaster at Colintown; was licensed to preach in 1663; became minister at Wamphray in 1664; was transferred to Athelstaneford in 1665; deprived for refusing the test in 1681; received again into the communion and made minister at Makerston in 1689; resigned in 1715, being incapable of ministerial duty, through age and infirmity; and died in 1718, aged seventy-eight years. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 1,319, 463, 664.