Craig

Craig the name of a number of Scotch clergymen.

1. ALEXANDER (1), took his degree at the University of St. Andrews in 1636; was admitted to the living at Pettinain in 1641, and died in April, 1642, aged about twenty-six years. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 2:331.

2. ALEXANDER (2), took his degree at the University of Aberdeen in 1669; was licensed to preach in 1676; appointed to the living at Unst in 1688 deserted his charge about 1697; resided at Fraserburgh in 1702; intruded there in 1708, and was accused of intrusion in 1716. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanac, 3:372, 441.

3. ARCHIBALD, took his degree at Edinburgh University in 1810; was licensed to preach in 1812; ordained as assistant in the living at Bedrule in 1832, and in that year published Introduction to Greek Accentuation. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 1:488.

4. GEORGE (1), D.D., was licensed to preach in 1799; presented to the living at Kinross in 1803, and ordained in 1804; assumed the name of Buchanan in 1806, and died April 18, 1842. He published An Account of the Parish. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 2:598.

5. GEORGE (2), was licensed to preach in 1832; appointed to the living at Sprouston in 1834, and ordained in 1835; joined the Free Secession in 1843, and died February 10, 1866. He published A Sermon at the Opening of the Parish Church (1838): — An Account of the Auchterarder Case (1839): — A Memoir of Reverend John Sym, his predecessor. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 1:473.

6. HUGH, a Covenanter of Edinburgh, studied at Glasgow University in 1667; was for some years a merchant-burgess; was called to the living at Galashiels in 1692, and ordained. He died before April, 1714. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticante, 1:550.

7. JAMES (1), took his degree at Glasgow University in 1652; was called to the living at Killearn in 1658, and ordained conformed to Eptcopacy; was accused before the privy council of several charges of disloyalty, and acquitted; other charges being brought against him in 1690, he was ousted by the rabble. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 2:356.

8. JAMES (2), took his degree at Edinburgh University in 1655; was appointed to the living at Hoddam in 1661, and ordained; transferred to Selkirk in 1666, and to Tranent in 1676; was deprived for refusing the test in 1681; elected by a unanimous vote of the kirksession, heritors, magistrates, and deacons, to the second charge, Canongate, Edinburgh, in 1687; obliged to remove to an old chapel near the Watergate in 1691; received into communion, and transferred to Duddingston in 1694. He died May 31, 1704, aged about seventy-two vears. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 1:89; 3:360, 540, 620.

9. JAMES (3), was born at Thornton-loch, in August, 1669; took his degree at Edinburgh University in 1694; was called to the living at Bathans (Yester), in 1701, and ordained; rebuked in 1702 for riding on the Sabbath while preaching in the North; transferred to Dunbar in 1718; promoted to the Old Church, Edinburgh, in 1721, and died January 31, 1731. He published Poems on Divine Subjects (Edinburgh, 1727): — Sermons (ibid. 1732-1738, 3 volumes). See Fasti Ecles. Scoticanae, 1:15, 364, 369.

10. JAMES (4), a native of Innerwick, was elected doctor in Heriot's Hospital, Edinburgh, in 1739; licensed to preach in 1742; appointed to the living at Currie in 1752, and ordained; became presbytery clerk in 1753, and died June 24, 1792, aged seventy-two years. See. Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 1:146.

11. JAMES (5), A.M., was licensed to preach in 1795; presented to the living at Dalserf in 1805, and ordained; retired to England with the sanction of the presbytery, and died there, November 9, 1845. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 2:281.

12. JOHN, was licensed to preach in 1760; appointed minister at Kirkpatrick-Fleming in 1764; transferred to Ruthwell in 1783, and died December 16, 1798, aged sixtyone years. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 1:622, 626.

13. ROBERT, A.M., was licensed to preach in 1824; appointed to Stanley chapel in 1826; presented to the living at New Cumnock in 1829, and ordained; transferred to Rothesay in 1835, when Gaelic was no longer required; joined the Free Secession in 1843, and died May 26,1860, aged sixty-eight years. He published, Theocracy (1848): — The Man Christ Jesus (1855). See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 2:105; 3:30, 31.

14. THOMAS (1), took his decree at the University of St. Andrews in 1603, was licensed to preach in 1611; appointed to the living at New Spynie in 1624, and died in 1639, aged about fifty-six years. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 3:171.

15. THOMAS (2). took his degree at Glasgow University in 1617; was licensed to preach in 1620; admitted to the living at Largo before 1631, and continued in 1637, but was deposed in 1640. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 2:252.

16. THOMAS (3), took his degree at King's College, Aberdeen, in 1656; became schoolmaster of Dyke; was licensed to preach in 1659; presented to the living at St. Andrew's-Lhanbryd in 1663, and ordained; deprived in 1690 for nonjurancy, and died before 1719. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 3:165.

17. THOMAS (4), was licensed to preach in 1743; presented to the living at Guthrie in 1753; ordained in 1754, and died April 16,1797. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 3:796.

18. WILLIAM, D.D., was born in Glasgow in February, 1709; took his degree at the university there; was licensed to preach in 1734; called to the living at Cambusnethan in 1737, and ordained. He preached the principles of virtue and morality more frequently than his hearers had been accustomed to, so they opposed him; he was transferred to the West Church, Glasgow, in 1738; removed with his congregation to the new Church of St. Andrew in 1761, and died January 13, 1784. Habitually pious, he arrested the attention without alarming the imagination, and touched the heart without rousing the passions. He published, The Reverence which is Due to the Name of God (1761): — The Character and Obligations of a Minister of the Gospel (1764): — An Essay on the Life of Jesus Christ (1767): — Twenty Discourses on Various Subjects (Lond. 1775; 2d ed., with Life, 1808, 2 vols.). See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 2:24, 275; Chalmers, Biog. Dict. s.v.; Allibone, Dict. of Brit. and Amer. Authors, s.v.