Clerk, Farquhard

Clerk, Farquhard, a Scotch clergyman, took his degree at the University of St. Andrews in 1626; was the first minister who visited Stornoway to establish a mission, the inhabitants being strangers to the gospel, and only a few under the age of forty having been baptized; was admitted in 1642, and continued in 1643. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticance, 3:144.