Colvil, Robert, Dd

Colvil, Robert, D.D.

a Scotch clergyman, a native of Sanquhar, was tutor in the family of Hope Johnston; was licensed to preach in 1805; presented to the living at Johnston in 1808, and ordained in 1809. He died September 4, 1851, aged seventy-two years. He left two sons, Walter, minister of Cramond, and Robert Francis, minister of Kirkpatrick-Juxta. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 1:651.