OBITUARY NOTICE. 



The Very Rev. Thomas Leishman, D.D., F.S.A. (Scot.) 

 By Rev. David Paul, LL.D., Edinburgh. 



Since the issue of the last part of its Proceedings the 

 Club has lost one of its oldest remaining members, the Very 

 Rev. Thomas Leishman, D.D., minister of Linton, and it 

 would not be fitting that such an event should be allowed 

 to pass without notice. 



The facts of Dr Leishman's life are briefly these. He was 

 born, 7th May, 1825, in the Manse of Qovan, where his 

 father, Dr Matthew Leishman, a man well known in his 

 day, was the Parish Minister. He studied in the University 

 of Glasgow, and in due time received licence as a preacher 

 in the Church of Scotland. His first charge was at Collace, 

 a small parish in the Presbytery of Perth, to which he was 

 ordained on the 1st of July, 1852. After a ministry there 

 of less than three years he was presented to the Parish of 

 Linton, and inducted 7th June, 1855. His ministry in Linton 

 lasted for nearly half a century. In 1895 his son, the Rev. 

 James F. Leishman, M.A., the present minister of Linton, 

 was appointed assistant and successor to aid him in his 

 work, and Dr Leishman retired to Edinburgh, where he 

 died, 13th July, 1904, in his eightieth year. 



The Parish of Linton in which his lot was cast for so 

 many years is a purely rural parish, shut ofif from the high- 

 ways of life, quiet and peaceable, sharing in the natural 

 beauties of the Border district in which it lies. Its four 



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