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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°a S. VHi. Dec. 24. '69, 



about Rev. John Anderson, received from Mb. 

 Irving (2°* S. viii. 358.) so much interesting 

 matter on the subject. By way of increasing, and 

 it may be supposed completing the subject, I now 

 send you all I have noted, as I have hunted up 

 all my memoranda. Mb. Irving will find the cor- 

 rection of my supposition as to Mr. Anderson's 

 being presented to a parish by Montrose. The 

 Rev. John Anderson was born in Edinburgh on 

 the 10th of January, 1670 (in a house in the 

 Cannongate, I believe) ; he was educated in the 

 Cannongate School, was chosen one of the mas- 

 ters of the school about 1692. He was elected 

 head master of the Grammar School in South 

 Leith in 1693. He was chosen by the Lord 

 Provost and magistrates of Edinburgh as one of 

 the classical teachers of the High School of Edin- 

 burgh in 1695. He became private tutor, or, as 

 he is phrased on his monument, "Preceptor to the 

 famous Duke of Argyle and Greenwich," some- 

 where about 1696 it is probable. It has been said 

 that he was also, in 1697, private tutor to the no 

 less celebrated James Duke of Montrose, and 

 was instrumental in saving his life on one occa- 

 sion, but of this there is no record. In 1698, he 

 was ordained parish clergyman of Dumbarton. 

 In 1711, he received a call from the parish of 

 Dundonald, and a presentation thereto from Lord 

 Cochrane, but declined. In 1713 he received a 

 presentation to the parish of East Kilbride from 

 the Duke of Montrose, which he also declined. 

 In 1718 he was removed to the west parish of 

 Glasgow ; and at his house in Glasgow, on the 

 1 9th of February, 1721, "at half past 5 o'clock in 

 the morning," he breathed his last. On the 22nd 

 of February his body was interred in the church- 

 yard attached to the north-west parish church, at 

 the head of the Candleriggs in Glasgow, where it 

 now lies. Shortly afterwards a monument to his 

 memory was placed in the church, I believe by 

 his son. When the old church (known, I never 

 could discover lohy, in common parlance as the 

 Ramshorn Kirk,) was demolished, the monument 

 was removed and placed in the wall of the new 

 church (built on the same site) by Professor John 

 Anderson, the grandson of the Rev. John Ander- 

 son. On the death of Prof. John Anderson, in 

 1796, he was buried beside his grandfather ; and 

 six months after his interment, the present monu- 

 ment, containing the epitaph of grandfather and 

 grandson, was put into the outside wall of the 

 church (now known as St. David's), the former 

 stone having probably decayed and become illegi- 

 ble. The enclosed copy (by the Session Clerk 

 Dep. of St. David's) of the inscription on the pre- 

 sent monument, obtained through the courtesy of 

 the pastor, Robt. Paton, D.D., completes, I think, 

 all that is ever likely to be forthcoming as to the 

 life and labours of John Anderson. Mr. Irving 

 will see that Samuel Royse's " Verses " fixed the 



date of the death : short, indeed, was Mr. Ander- 

 son's tenure of the north-west parish of Glasgow, 

 and his life must have been embittered by the 

 contenrion preceding his removal to Glasgow. 

 The date of the removal is some two years 

 earlier than Mr. Irving states it, 1718 instead 

 of 1720 (which is correct ?). I presume be- 

 fore the 1715 "row" Montrose and Argyll were 

 on fair terms ; and it is by no means impos- 

 sible that Anderson was tutor to both, and 

 that both gave him a helping hand. And it is 

 worth noting, as an instance to add to those al- 

 ready noted in " N. & Q." of " Remote Events 

 through few Links," that John Anderson, though 

 only fifty-one years of age at his' death, was born 

 in the reign of Charles II., and lived in the reigns 

 of James II., William and Mary, Anne, and 

 George I. 



I trust you will excuse the length of this, and 

 insert the copy of the inscription in " N. & Q.," as 

 it is a point settled and final, so far as this matter 

 is concerned, from C. D. Lamont. 



Paris, 94. Rue de Lourcine. 



" Near this place lie 

 The remains of the 

 Rev. John Andeuson, 

 Who was Preceptor to the famous Duke of Argyle and 

 Greenwich, and Minister of the Gospel in Dumbarton, in 

 the beginning of the Eighteenth Century, — and, in this 

 Church, in ike year 1720. He was the Author of the 

 Defence of the Church Government, Faith, Worship, and 

 Spirit of the Presbyterians; and of several other Eccle- 

 siastical and Political Tracts. As a pious Minister, an 

 eloquent Preacher, a Defender of Civil and Religious 

 Liberty, and a Man of Wit and Learning, he was much 

 esteemed. He lived in the reigns of Charles II., James 

 II., William III., Ann, and George I. Such times, and 

 such a Man, forget not Reader, while thy Country, Li- 

 berty, and Religion are dear to thee. 



" Mingled with the dust of the above-mentioned Mr. 

 John Anderson, is that of his Grandson Mr. John Ander- 

 son, who died on the 13th of January in the year 1796, 

 in the Seventieth year of his age, and Fort}''-first of his 

 Professorship. The Eldest Son of Mr. Anderson, who 

 was Minister in this Church, was the Reverend James 

 Anderson, who was Minister in Roseneath, and his Eldest 

 Son was the above-mentioned Mr. John Anderson, who was 

 Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of 

 Glasgow and the Founder of an Institution in the City 

 of Glasgow for Lectures in Natural Philosophy, and in 

 every branch of Knowledge. 



« Erected July 1796." 

 The above is copied from a tablet on the out- 

 side of the wall of St. David's church, Glasgow. 



"dOMXNUS EEGNAVIT A LIGNO." 



(2"<» S. viii. 470.) 



If B. H. C. will consult "S. Bible en Latin et 

 en Fran9ois, avec des Notes tirees de Calmet. 

 De Vence," &c. vol. vii. p. 283. (edit. Paris, 1770, 

 in 17 vols. 4to.), he will find an excellent disser- 



